[plug] Linux on an IBM PS/2

[Steve Baker]

You are in fact mistaken.  Older RS/6000's did use MCA, but the new ones now
are PCI.

bakes
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Steve Baker (sbaker at icg.net.au) -- Integra Consulting Group
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Summerfield <summer at os2.ami.com.au>
To: plug at linux.org.au <plug at linux.org.au>
Date: Thursday, 9 December 1999 0:10
Subject: Re: [plug] Linux on an IBM PS/2


>
>>
>> It is not just modern it is also "common" hardware. MCA is good in theory
>> but practise showed that IBM got greedy and cut of the market it was
tying
>> to win over.
>
>I may be mistaken, but I think MCA is alive and well and living inside any
>RS/6000.
>
>I don't know what's inside modern IBM '86 servers, but MCA was in them as
>recently as '94.
>--
>Cheers
>John Summerfield
>http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
>Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.
>
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