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From: rde@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: MICROCHANNEL for 386BSD ???
Message-ID: <185@larch.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Apr 93 13:35:51 GMT
References: <1993Apr22.145040.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: rde@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Eager)
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In article <1993Apr22.145040.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> chrisopj@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
>Holla!
>I'm one of the miserable thousands with Microchannel architecture (ps/2
>55sx).  Once upon a time I inquired if both 386bsd and Linux supported
>MCA:  the answer was NOPE.  
>
>Is this still the case? Is ANYONE working on Microchannel support? 
>Please oh please please email me or post if so. 
>Thanks :))

I am just starting on this right now; I have an ISA machine set up for
cross compilation. I am starting with SCSI-only disks; I have all the IBM
tech docs.....

Bob

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