Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:04:27 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI probe problems. Message-ID: <199512042204.RAA05566@etinc.com>
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>On Dec 4, 15:22, dennis wrote: >} Subject: Re: PCI probe problems. >} >On Dec 4, 3:31, Carlos Antonio Ruggiero wrote: > >} Remember (back-when) Compaq was the standard? (Ha-Ha). > >Yes :( > >They meant the end of our first excursion to PC Unix (386/ix) >on a 386/20 hardware some 7 years ago ... > >A 640x400 VGA which could not be disabled, and custom memory >modules, which would have made replacing the systems one year >later by better equipped ones cheaper than buying those Compaq >piggy back cards. > >These Comapq systems were so brain damaged, that it took six >years for any PC hardware to be considered again. > >It's always interesting to watch how the main players seem to >think they are the only players, until they find nobody wants >to play with them any more :) When your big enough (Cisco ring a bell) you become the standard, no matter how bad it is. db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25
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