From: umthom61@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Adam Thompson) Subject: Re: 'combeg.dos3' Beginners.... 'commands' usage explanations. Date: 19 Mar 1992 20:48:51 GMT
[yes, I know this isn't the best place to take this up]
In <1992Mar19.161842.12158@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
>In article <3985@sumax.seattleu.edu> boyer@sumax.seattleu.edu (Chuck Boyer) writes:
>>located in /dev;
>>PS0 is the device of floppy drive a:, 1.2M in PS/2 systems
>>PS1 is the device name of floppy drive b:, 1.4M in PS/2 systems.
>>at0 is the device name of floppy drive a:, 1.2 in at clones.
>>
>Can one infer from this that the Micro-channel architecture of PS/2
>systems is/will be supported? I read elsewhere that one had to have
>an AT-Bus - But I know of no PS/2 386 systems with such a bus. What's the
>story?
Yup. Several PS/2 machines do, indeed, have ISA buses. I believe they
are the model 30 and 70 lines, but I'm not sure.
>PS - Is anyone interested in porting to MCA? I know little of either the
>internal workings of LINUX/UNIX or MCA, but am willing to learn if others
>would like to embark on such a venture...
Depends. It shouldn't be impossible, but MCA is (IMO) a much more rigidly
structured system, where you can use things like _protocols_ across a
hardware bus... no more should beed to be said than that...
-Adam Thompson
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