Steve wrote to Lawrence at 12:24 21 May:

 SQ> Hello Lawrence.

 SQ> 16 May 03 07:47, you wrote to Russell Tiedt:

 LG> In fact, Russell, installing FreeBSD v4.x requires the installer to
 LG> know none of those things.

 SQ> How very interesting...I am just beginning to play with FreeBSD,
 SQ> and boy, am I going to have some questions for you. :-)  To my
 SQ> horror, what little I knew of SCO, going back over ten years, seems
 SQ> to evade me today, and I find myself flying by the seat of "It
 SQ> looks like DOS."  Yikes.

Yep.. FreeBSD is very good at probing and identifying installed hardware.
Call it "Plug and Play" that works, if you like. :-)

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