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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 1996 12:03:00 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        support@cdrom.com (Jamil Weatherbee)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Microchannel? (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199604170233.MAA05241@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960416132841.3773Q-100000@mother.cdrom.com> from "Jamil Weatherbee" at Apr 16, 96 01:29:03 pm

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Jamil Weatherbee stands accused of saying:
> I recently purchased FreeBSD 2.1 without noticing that microchannel bus 
> PC's were not listed under system requirements. Does this mean it will 
> be impossible, extremely difficult, or achievable if I try to install 
> this on an mc based machine?

Totally impossible at this point.  IBM won't release documentation on
the MCA, so it's not possible to write code to support it.

> Dave Rein

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