Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 20:58:51 +0200 (CEST) From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? Message-ID: <m0yXVsZ-00024SC@bert.kts.org> 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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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.
This might be correct. But "new system " != "most systems" !
> IMHO, anything
> older than that is approaching obsolescence anyway.
This assumption is wrong.
Currently, many people in medium and large companies get hold of "old"
hardware consisting of 486 and and Pentium 90 class machines which are
just there because the (Word) users are working on 233 PII machines.
And they discover that a (or a cluster of) 486/66 running FreeBSD is
much more powerful than a 233 PII running NT.
There are loads and loads of 386, 486 and Pentiums <= 100MHz out there
which are just fine for running them as routers or gateways or proxies
or or or and which do _not_ have a PnP BIOS.
hellmuth
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