From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 00:30:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA24464 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:30:32 -0800 Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA24459 ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:30:28 -0800 Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tHo5f-0003viC; Tue, 21 Nov 95 00:30 PST Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA03408; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:30:02 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: sos@freebsd.org cc: newton@communica.com.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, scrappy@hub.org, grog@lemis.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:22:58 +0100." <199511210822.JAA09206@ra.dkuug.dk> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:30:02 +0100 Message-ID: <3406.816942602@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > We still support 80-column ttys, so the heritage link is there. > > > > > > Ah, but can you *boot* from them? > > > > You have never tried "boot -x" then ? > > > > You're supposed type in your kernel in uuencoded form... > > > > :-) > > > > Yes, I know, ... I actually COULD be usable :-) > > > > YEAHHH! that way I can use the barcode reader lying here somewhere to > boot of all that code that sits on everything !! > Ever tried to boot a bottle of coke ?? :) :) :) Think about this: COM_CONSOLE with a modem on the console... It proved usefull to me once on an apollo... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.