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From: gustav@arp.anu.edu.au (Zdzislaw Meglicki)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: EISA & 386bsd?
Date: 2 Mar 1993 03:42:19 GMT
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I have just ordered a 486/EISA based system for our site planning
to use it for 386bsd. I've been told that EISA is entirely upwardly
compatible with ISA and that MSDOS runs on such systems without
problems. Will 386bsd run on EISA without problems too? In particular
will it recognise a 32 Bit Hard Disk Controller?
-- 
   Zdzislaw Gustav Meglicki, gustav@arp.anu.edu.au,
   Automated Reasoning Program - CISR, and Plasma Theory Group - RSPhysS,
   The Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T., 2601, 
   Australia, fax: (Australia)-6-249-0747, tel: (Australia)-6-249-0158