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Date:      Thu, 7 May 1998 14:15:40 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        hm@kts.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support?
Message-ID:  <199805072015.OAA10708@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0yXVsZ-00024SC@bert.kts.org>
References:  <3.0.3.32.19980507095816.00689420@bugs.us.dell.com> <m0yXVsZ-00024SC@bert.kts.org>

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> > IMHO, anything 
> > older than that is approaching obsolescence anyway.
> 
> This assumption is wrong.
> 
> Currently, many people in medium and large companies get hold of "old"
> hardware consisting of 486 and and Pentium 90 class machines which are
> just there because the (Word) users are working on 233 PII machines.

As well as older laptops, which are non PnP (and we don't yet support
newer laptops with CardBus controllers, so for now we've *GOT* to
support the older systems until someone writes CardBus code.)


Nate

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