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From: michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael Gerhards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
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Subject: Re: Emulex DCP-286i comms. board & 386bsd?
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 13:59:58 GMT
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Mathew BM LIM (mbl900@anusf.anu.edu.au) wrote:
> I have "inherited" the following board from off the AT bus on a Sun 386i,
> has anyone encountered one like it and does it work with 386bsd?

> >From the manual :

> "The Emulex DCP-286i is a high-performance, miltiprotocol communications
> processor for IBM PC products with on-board intelligence in the form of an 
> Intel 286 microprocessor. <marketing guff deleted>
        ^^^
386BSD and NetBSD are ports to the Intel-386-architecture. They need 32 bit
and the 286 has only 16. If you want to run a Unix-like OS, try Minix or
COHERENT 3.2.

Michael
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