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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ns.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!news.nd.edu!news From: ldb@cse.nd.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Micro Channel Bus? Date: 15 Jan 1996 22:04:46 GMT Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4dej1u$ji0@news.nd.edu> References: <4d64rg$5hs@hilbert.dnai.com> <4d724l$jle@hilbert.dnai.com> <DL4tn0.LK@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de> <DL4yp3.99M@ritz.mordor.com> Reply-To: ldb@cse.nd.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: pclsys51.dcrl.nd.edu X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <DL4yp3.99M@ritz.mordor.com>, ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes: >Thomas Graichen (graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de) wrote: >: Ha Ha (alex@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN) wrote: >: : Ha Ha (alex@yahoo.com) wrote: >: : : Will FreeBSD work on a microchannel bus system? >: >: : : TIA >: : : Alex Winske >: >: : Okay... no it doesn't. >: >: : Is there a free unix flavor that does? >: >: i think some people in the linux corner are doing it - but don't ask >: me where to find it (was in the news some days ago - in >: comp.os.linux.system i think) > >Why bother? It's a proprietary bus offered only by IBM >and I think that even they have abandoned it. It is usually >quite difficult even to find MCA cards these days. > >Chris >-- >Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: >ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR >Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ >201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451 It seems that IBM has decided not to use the microchannel for PCs, and is instead using ISA/PCI stuff. However, they still use the microchannel for their workstations.