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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!cse.ogi.edu!rudnick From: rudnick@cse.ogi.edu (Mike Rudnick) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD platform Date: 28 Jun 1994 04:22:11 GMT Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2uo8hj$12b@reuter.cse.ogi.edu> References: <2uacoc$gfi@reuter.cse.ogi.edu> <2ukb2g$r7b@huey.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blue.cse.ogi.edu Keywords: configuration cseanf@huey.cc.utexas.edu (Chris Ficklin) says: > In article <2uacoc$gfi@reuter.cse.ogi.edu>, > Mike Rudnick <rudnick@cse.ogi.edu> wrote: > >I'm buying a pentium system to run freeBSD (and occasionally DOS/windows). ... > >would like guidance. What has worked best in your experience? > PCI is the best way to go on the bus. Have you actually got freeBSD runing on a 90MHz Pentium system (has anyone :-) ? > Drivers are almost completely > finished for the NCR chip and possibly others. For video, almost Are these actually available in a release yet? > For monitor I prefer a Trinitron Tube. > Mitsubishi makes a good 17" Trinitron. Another possibility I'd like to consider (if it's possible) is to use two smaller monitors, say a 14" and a 15". Does Xfree86 supports treating two monitors as a single resource so that I can drag a window from one monitor to the other. Has anyone done this? Mike Rudnick rudnick@cse.ogi.edu