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update for changes in main -- USB and IDE are not i386 specific

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perry 1999-03-23 21:02:09 +00:00
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.\" $NetBSD: whatis,v 1.8 1999/03/23 18:57:19 perry Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: whatis,v 1.9 1999/03/23 21:02:09 perry Exp $
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As is usual between releases, the i386 port has had many improvements
made to it -- too many to detail all of them here.
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Lennart Augustsson has added full USB support, permitting the use of a
wide variety of Universal Serial Bus peripherals.
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Manuel Bouyer's PCIIDE work now permits full DMA support on IDE
controller/drive combinations that support it. This dramatically
improves performance on supported hardware.
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New i386 boot blocks now support INT13 extensions. This means that on
modern BIOSes, it is possible to boot a NetBSD partition that is past
the old 1024 cylinder boundary. The new boot blocks also support a