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Date:      Thu, 7 May 1998 21:23:05 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support?
Message-ID:  <199805071923.VAA02938@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980507095816.00689420@bugs.us.dell.com> from Tony Overfield at "May 7, 98 09:58:16 am"

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As Tony Overfield wrote...
> Mike Smith wrote:
> > [...] by taking advantage of the
> > fact that most systems *do* have PnP BIOS support.
> 
> Hellmuth Michaelis wrote:
> >This assumption is wrong.
> 
> I'd be very surprised if any new system built in the last 
> three years didn't include PnP BIOS support.  IMHO, anything 
> older than that is approaching obsolescence anyway.

This is a recurring subject I suppose: there are still quite a
number of people who run on a low/no budget and use old hardware.
The last time, a couple of months ago, was with the proposal to axe
bad144.

Ancient maybe in your view, but usable to them. And most likely of
era's when PNP was only a semiconductor acronym.

Just my Dfl 0.02,

Wilko
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