Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:06:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, lem@cantv.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP kernel on Compaq anyone? Message-ID: <199803190106.RAA23844@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:04:53 MST." <199803190104.SAA20525@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <199803181706.JAA20467@austin.polstra.com> John Polstra writes: > : Furthermore, Compaq > : considers every little incompatibility to be valuable proprietary > : information, which it will not release to anybody except Microsoft > .... > : They don't want you to run > : FreeBSD on their machines, and they won't give you the time of day if > : you run into problems. > > hmmm, that would explain why my presario reports 16M of memory when > it, in fact, has 40M in it.... We may have a solution for this (a proper one) in the wings. > I kinda like the torx T15 screws that they use to hold it together :-) > Good luck finding them in the store, however. T15's? Easy stuff. Now, pin-torx are a little harder, but not as annoying as, say, tri-wings. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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