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From: hirsh@skypoint.com (Roger P Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Digiboard PC/16em supporte?
Date: 16 Oct 1996 15:28:15 GMT
Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc.
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I currently use FreeBSD with Digi's PC/16e. It works fine. From all the
FreeBSD info I have, I only see that FreeBSD has drivers/support for Digi's
PC/Xe and PC/Xi series i/o boards only.
But, when I visted Digi's web page (www.digi.com), there is a chart of
drivers for Unix operating system. They have a column for Linux and FreeBSD.
Under the FreeBSD column, the folowing Digi products have "Third Party Driver
or operating system vendor supplied and supported driver".
(from digi's homepage table)
Product .... FreeBSD
============ ... ==========
PC/X YES
PC/Xe 64k YES
PC/Xe 8k YES
PC/Xi YES
COM/Xi YES
PC/Xr YES
PC/Xem YES
So does FreeBSD have support for the above products? Is anyone using any of
the above? Surely one driver does not run them all?
We are considering using FreeBSD as our POS platform. I have ported most of
the POS source program from Xenix to FreeBSD. Thus we have about 15 Digiboard
PC/16e's out there. Also the PC/16em is the next upgrade path from the PC/16e
and need to know if FreeBSD has support for the 16em's.
Any comments welcomed. BTW I have had FreeBSD for 6 weeks and am very
impressed with it all from the install to the networking. No crashes and
no surprises. I like the product very much.
Thanks,
Roger