From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 14:32:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA10392 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:32:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merit.edu (merit.edu [35.1.1.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA10384 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ohm.merit.edu (ohm.merit.edu [198.108.60.65]) by merit.edu (8.7.5/merit-2.0) with ESMTP id RAA18596 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:31:51 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bulley Received: (web@localhost) by ohm.merit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.5) id RAA19816 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:41:43 -0400 Message-Id: <199604182141.RAA19816@ohm.merit.edu> Subject: ThinkPad and FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:41:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We are considering an IBM ThinkPad 701 for FreeBSD. I don't know what it has on the inside (the store clerk frowns on my taking laptops apart in his showroom...) :-) This puppy is 75MHz 486 so is kinda slow, but will the other stuff work? For example: 1) modem uses DSP (?) 2) disk is not IDE (MicroChannel?) 3) UART chip (??) 4) other stuff like the red button mouse (just a PS/2 mouse?) Is this gonna work or cause me lots of headaches? Thanks! Regards, web... -- William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network Inc. Domain: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road MaBell: (313) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (313) 747-3185