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>Adam Fritzler wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to see more assistance from IBM in the hardware documentation
>> front. Their recent release of the Lanstreamer token ring driver is a
>> good start. IBM hardware that I could use docs for:
>>
>> - IBM Wireless LAN entry PCMCIA cards
>> - Early RS/6000 hardware, particularly MicroChannel based models
>> - Various old IBM MCA cards (I can give a full list if IBM wants :)
>
>MicroChannel? Is that still being used or are these just old cards?
>

Made, no. Used, yes. They made about 13 million MCA boxes and they hold up
great. Modified, yes. People are still twiddling the processor boards and
such.

It would be a great PR move for IBM to open-source Microchannel down to the
VHDL. In a perfect world nothing else would be legal.

Rick Hohensee

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