First cut of the arc notes. I need people to look at them and add/change

things as it apply to their machines... It's far from finished - more or
less just copied from the pmax dir... More will come.

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+OpenBSD/arc 2.1 runs on the following classes of machines:
+	- Acer PICA61 (RISC-PC) Systems.
+	- Deskstation rPC44.
+	- Deskstation Tyne.
+
+OpenBSD/pmax 2.1 does *not* (yet) run on these machines:
+	- Mips Magnum
+	- Olivetti systems.
+
+The minimal configuration requires 8M of RAM and ~60M of disk space.
+To install the entire system requires ~150M of disk space, and to run
+X or compile the system, 32Mb of RAM and ~1G of disk is recommended.
+
+Supported devices include:
+	graphics:
+		built-in S3 VGA graphics adatper on PICA.
+		Standard VGA graphics adapter on rPC44 and Tyne.
+
+	keyboard:
+		Standard PC compatible keyboard with driver softloaded keymaps.
+
+	mouse:
+		PS2 mouse on PICA
+		Serial mouse (with X server) on rPC44 and Tyne.
+
+	serial ports: 
+		on-board tty00 and tty01 (PICA. can not yet be used as console)
+		ISA tty00 and tty01 on systems without serial ports on
+		the motherboard (Tyne).
+		ISA tty02 and tty03 on all ISA capable systems.
+
+	paralell ports:
+		paralell ports is supported on-board (PICA) or on ISA
+		(rPC44 and Tyne).
+
+	floppy:
+		floppy is supported on PICA only.
+
+	ethernet: 
+		on-board SONIC controller (PICA)
+		3Com Etherlink boards (All ISA capable systems)
+
+	SCSI: 
+		on-board NCR53C96 SCSI controller (PICA)
+		VLB "Buslogic BT-440C/445C" SCSI controller.
+
+
+