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From: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: MicroChannel support ?
Date: 16 May 1997 04:04:37 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc J Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> wrote:
: chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek) wrote:

: > Is any of the free BSD branches capable to play with these MCA machines?

: FreeBSD not.  There once was a couple of guys trying to work on it,
: but i've never heard anything back from them for years now.

: Supposedly, Linux has some (rudimentary?) support for MCA.  No idea
: about its quality.

And now IBM is dropping MCA support on RS/6000 machines.
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Rick Kelly  rmk@seahag.rmkhome.com  rmk@rmkhome.com 
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