Date: Sat, 01 Jun 96 14:57:27 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <reyes01@ibm.net> To: "Chuck Robey" <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua>, "Darryl Okahata" <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>, "FreeBSD doc Mailing list" <doc@freebsd.org>, "John Fieber" <jfieber@indiana.edu> Subject: Re: Hardware compatibility list. Second round. Message-ID: <199606011858.SAA83863@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net>
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On Sat, 1 Jun 1996 13:23:23 -0400 (EDT), Chuck Robey wrote: >On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Francisco Reyes wrote: >> -Computer:make,model,cpu,cpu speed, amount of RAM, motherboard, bios and >> revision, busses(eg ISA, VESA, PCI), chipset >Comment: Many folks have a computer made of parts bought here and >there. If you don't allow folks to spec the motherboard, well, they >can't very well give a name to a 'computer'. Spec'ing the motherboard >counts a lot more nowadays than specing the vendor it was bought from. Notice that I suggested to have both in the form. Some people may build their own computers, but others may just buy them. If we have space for both then it works for everybody. Some people may not even know many of the names of their components. They can simply fill whatever they know.
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