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From: Joe McGuckin <joe@ns.via.net>
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To: louie@TransSys.COM
Subject: Re: The view from here (was Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU)
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Why not get some vendor to modify a bios to remove all the wierd quirks
imposed by the PC platform?

Isnt there a freebie - MR. BIOS, or something like that?

Some obvious modifications would be:

  - Use the serial port as console

  - Make the lack of keyboard and video a non-error

We'd have to specify a reference platform for the BIOS, why not the ASIUS
boards that everyone seems to like so much...

-joe