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Date:      Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:33:49 -0400
From:      Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
To:        atrad.adelaide.edu.au!msmith@dg-rtp.dg.com, support@cdrom.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Microchannel? (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199604261733.NAA06898@lakes>

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> Jamil Weatherbee stands accused of saying:
> > I recently purchased FreeBSD 2.1 without noticing that microchannel bus 
> > PC's were not listed under system requirements. Does this mean it will 
> > be impossible, extremely difficult, or achievable if I try to install 
> > this on an mc based machine?
> 
> Totally impossible at this point.  IBM won't release documentation on
> the MCA, so it's not possible to write code to support it.
> 
> > Dave Rein
> 

 Hmmm.... seems like I remember someone getting pretty far with it.

 Also, I have a friend who claims to have gotten all of the needed
doc from IBM; he's just "itchin'" to port FreeBSD to MCA...

	- Dave Rivers -



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