From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 12 00:20:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA07148 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA07127 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:20:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA07949; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:19:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jacob Barde cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM PS/x (MCA) arch. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Jacob Barde wrote: > Presently I am looking to install a unix-clone OS on an 486 IBM > PS/ValuePoint. Now, I already know that FreeBSD does not support it right > now. > I was wondering if anyone knew of any free (or nearly free) unix-like OSs > that did support the MCA that IBM used. Linux (Redhat5.1) already bit the > dust. > > appreciate it, I highly doubt it. IBM watned money for the MCA spec and no open OS was going to pay money for it. Besides, that is legacy hardware and MCA is dead. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message