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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:30:02 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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 
Message-ID:  <3406.816942602@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:22:58 %2B0100." <199511210822.JAA09206@ra.dkuug.dk> 

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> > >  > 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...

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Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
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Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.



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