From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 28 12:12:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA12677 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:12:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ascetic.portal.ca (ascetic.portal.ca [206.87.139.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12668 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:12:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjs@portal.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by ascetic.portal.ca (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA29733; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:11:26 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: ascetic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:11:25 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson To: Kris Kirby cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3637766B.EF38FD48@airnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Kris Kirby wrote: > Curt Sampson wrote: > > On a DEC Alpha 8400? Maybe a couple of hundred. Why? :-) > > If I'm not mistaken, I believe FreeBSD has a problem with PCI busses after the > bridges. Hence, not many slots. Really? So simple things like the Zynx 4-port Ethernet card don't work? If this is indeed the case, at any rate, I can't imagine that this is a feature of FreeBSD, rather than a bug that will be squished as soon as somone gets around to it. cjs -- Curt Sampson 604-257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil. Any opinions expressed are mine and mine alone. The most widely ported operating system in the world: http://www.netbsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message