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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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!usenet From: marquard@Austin.IBM.Com (Dave Marquardt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Micro Channel Bus? Date: 18 Jan 1996 10:30:41 -0600 Organization: IBM, Austin, TX Lines: 30 Sender: marquard@mojave.austin.ibm.com Message-ID: <v5tn37l8nym.fsf@mojave.austin.ibm.com> References: <4d64rg$5hs@hilbert.dnai.com> <4d724l$jle@hilbert.dnai.com> <DL4tn0.LK@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de> <DL4yp3.99M@ritz.mordor.com> <4dej1u$ji0@news.nd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mojave.austin.ibm.com In-reply-to: ldb@cse.nd.edu's message of 15 Jan 1996 22:04:46 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 "ldb" == ldb <ldb@cse.nd.edu> writes: ldb> 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. ldb> It seems that IBM has decided not to use the microchannel for ldb> PCs, and is instead using ISA/PCI stuff. However, they still use ldb> the microchannel for their workstations. Even some of our workstations use ISA/PCI now. -Dave