From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jun 1 11:58:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA19477 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 11:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (pop01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA19466 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 11:58:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA83863; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 18:58:37 GMT Message-Id: <199606011858.SAA83863@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Chuck Robey" Cc: "Andrew V. Stesin" , "Darryl Okahata" , "FreeBSD doc Mailing list" , "John Fieber" Date: Sat, 01 Jun 96 14:57:27 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Francisco Reyes's Registered PMMail 1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Hardware compatibility list. Second round. Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.