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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 57 486SLC2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.092816.28740@aston.ac.uk>
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- References: <1992Nov12.221819.237@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:28:16 GMT
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- wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
- : pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus Rodriguez) writes:
- : >I have read the FAQ list and it talks alot about the 386/486 AT-bus but
- : >doesn't rule out MCA machines. SO will LINUX run on an IBM PS/2 MCA 386 or
- : >higher?
- :
- : No.
-
- Well it is more a sort of yes and no
-
- Linux will run, it just won't talk to anything in the MCA slots.
-
- Which for all practical purposes means you can't get very far
- unless you just want to play with a floppy based unix :-)
- :
- : Using the harddisk with MCA is different than using it with ISA, and
- : it seems that there is no documentation available on how it is done.
- : Which means that people with MCA machines who wish to use Linux
- : continue wishing.
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