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From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: EISA experiences?
Message-ID: <2490@hcshh.hcs.de>
Date: 8 Jul 93 08:40:23 GMT
References: <21f1t9$r3c@pandora.sdsu.edu>
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In <21f1t9$r3c@pandora.sdsu.edu> mrh@io.nosc.mil (Mike Halderman) writes:

>How many people are using EISA systems for 386bsd?  Is the EISA worth the 
>extra expense when buying a new system?  Any proplems to watch out for?

EISA makes 386bsd take off & fly ...

If i had to buy a new system now, i wouldn't buy an ISA anymore.

The only problem i have is, that i cannot use Julian's new bootblocks on
that machine, but that might be related to my BIOS (Phoenix) implementation.

hellmuth
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