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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!world!blanket.mitre.org!linus.mitre.org!news.mitre.org!user From: cookson@linus.mitre.org (Dean Cookson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: x86 install problem. Date: 12 Jun 1995 16:15:58 GMT Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, Mass. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3rhp7u$qs9@reuters2.mitre.org> References: <3ra0lp$4ck@reuters2.mitre.org> <3rclca$jft@decaxp.harvard.edu> Reply-To: dcookson@mitre.org NNTP-Posting-Host: geeky.mitre.org In article <3rclca$jft@decaxp.harvard.edu>, Aaron Brown <abrown@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: >The Thinkpad 720 uses an internal MicroChannel architecture for its bus. Ah ha! This I did not realize. >From what I understand, none of the free UNIX's (including NetBSD) support >microchannel machines. This is probably where the problem lies. Yup, that would do it then, wouldn't it. Bummer. Oh well, thanks for the info. -- | Dean Cookson / dcookson@mitre.org / +1 617 271-2714| DoD #207 AMA #573534 | | The MITRE Corp. Burlington Rd., Bedford, Ma. 01730 |Kot NML,B,KotLD2 / DW 2| | "I'm going to just stick my face in the bowl and | '92 VFR750F | | suck." --Ms. Margo / Disclaimer? What disclaimer? | DoDHS #1 |