From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 10 08:17:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA09004 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 08:17:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from cerberus.partsnow.com (gatekeeper.partsnow.com [207.155.26.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA08988 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 08:17:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@PartsNow.com) Received: (from bin@localhost) by cerberus.partsnow.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id BAA09521; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 01:14:53 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cerberus.partsnow.com: bin set sender to using -f Received: from nouvelle(192.168.100.9) by cerberus.partsnow.com via smap (V2.0) id xma009519; Mon, 10 Nov 97 01:14:49 -0800 Message-ID: <346732EE.7855@PartsNow.com> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 08:14:38 -0800 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: don@PartsNow.com Organization: Soligen, Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0C-E-KIT (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: Terry Lambert , wghhicks@ix.netcom.com, mini@d198-232.uoregon.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x86 gods; advice? Suggestions? References: <199711091531.CAA00402@word.smith.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > What *I* care about is that OpenBoot is big, it is expensive and > > > proprietary, > > Whazzat? Isn't OpenBoot the FORTH-based device driver sanitizer? FORTH is tiny. However, my reading of the trades is that it never took off, so I doubt there will be many more cards with support. 's a shame, because it was originally a great idea. -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo