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 _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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