Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:11:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter) Cc: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Dual-booting FreeBSD and Windows95??? Message-ID: <199607021911.MAA08661@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199607021125.HAA24901@shell.monmouth.com> from "Bill/Carolyn Pechter" at Jul 2, 96 07:25:13 am
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> > It hasn't changed, no. I seem to remember several people offering to do > > MCA support over the last 2 odd years, but nothing has ever come of > > it. I would be very surpised if anything was done about MCA support > > in the next year or so, as it isn't very common and is becoming less so. > > > > Gary > > Unfortunately, this is so. I work for IBM now and there's a Ton of > 386's I'd be running FreeBSD on if I could get an idea of how to get > Token Ring support and Microchannel support working. But both are > way beyond me. > > The machines are cheap and surplus hardware internally (and just about the > same externally at every used hardware company... > > I hear there's folks with Linux up on microchannel and I've got a Compaq > running with Token Ring support under Linux now. I have been looking for a cheap used PS/2 with a sufficiently large disk for some time now, with no luck. It's not worth paying premium rates for something like this. If I was still in Utah, I'd have access to a number of PS/2 machines and a full "Networking Center of Excellence" -- including a token ring net and fully documented hardware. I've been looking for token ring hardware, but it seems a hub is required, and it's not worth $1500 to me to squelch complaints about what is, essentially, obsolete technology. I don't know of many hot programmers up there following my "generation"; the ones I do know are all doing simulation graphics on military contract now, so I don't even know who to contact about conning someone into working on it. 8-(. An MCA port using ABIOS would probably be no more difficult than the PC98 support already integrated into the tree. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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