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Date:      Sat, 30 Jan 1999 19:29:11 -0500
From:      Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, patl@phoenix.volant.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: USB drivers
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990130192426.0351a240@genesis.ispace.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901310020.RAA26553@usr04.primenet.com>
References:  <4.1.19990129225730.00c70670@genesis.ispace.com>

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At 07:20 PM 1/30/99 , Terry Lambert wrote:
>
>Any graphics on board is too much graphics on board, was kind of
>the point.
>

Yeah I spose.  What I hated was the onboard video that uses your system
memory.  Was working in a P-O-S Trigem (Classically known as a 'commercial
generic' (i.e. CTX International)) the other day that was like that.  

My FreeBSD server has a 2mb STB in it.. But it's there because it was all I
had on hand at the time... What really bugs me is my PII boards seem to
require a video card.. What probably bugs me more is the fact that the PS/2
ports are inactive if I unplug the keyboard/mouse and try to insert one
while the machine is still active.  I guess something from PI Engineering
can fix this problem though by leaving the ports active so I can hot swap.

>Apparently, NetBSD will netboot on the thing.  I don't know if there's
>enough hardware documentation to do anything else.  If the IDE drive
>were up, and you could actually get something on the console, I'd be
>driving down to Fry's right now instead of typing this.  8-).

Hehe.. I have a Powerbook 5300CS up the street that the owner may give me
if I ask.  It has a PPC 603E as well with 48/750.  It's IDE as well.  It
would be an interesting project, although it is rumored that MKLinux won't
even run on it because it lacks 'open firmware'.

>Very, very nifty.  Very nifty.  If you had one, you'd out-geek the
>rest of us for sure... anyone else have a wristwatch with 4M of RAM?

I want a Seiko Kinetic watch.. So I saw this thing.  Course I've got my own
geek watch in a way.  It's a Casio Databank 200 touch-screen.  It gets some
rather bizarre stares.  I'm in Maine though, so people think it's bizarre I
have a laptop and a palmtop on me during school.  It's like "So I can play
my Nintendo Emulator, mmm k?" The laptop DOES run FreeBSD, barely.


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Drew "Droobie" Baxter
Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM)
OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA
http://www.droo.orland.me.us

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