Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:21:48 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> To: "nathan" <beemern@ksu.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: you'll like this.,.. maybe (Seriously Off Topic...) Message-ID: <01be01bf5bda$a03836e0$0200000a@danco.home>
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Interesting. I once saw an EDS ATM machine at 7-Eleven reboot after a power failure. The little screen showed that it was a 386 machine with 16MB ram. It complained about not having a keyboard connected, then booted (of all things) OS/2, loaded the program manager (which looked like Windows 3.0) and then the ATM application... --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! -----Original Message----- From: nathan <beemern@ksu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 4:30 PM Subject: you'll like this.,.. maybe >personally... i found this pretty cool --> while vacationing over the >holidays, i was channel surfing in my hotel room when i came across the >following displayed on channel 0... previously, channel 0 had just been >running a short video loop describing the services etc the hotel >offered... >but... here's what i saw instead > >--snip-- >sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags:8x8> >sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on ISA >sio0: type 16550A >fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on ISA >fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold >ep0 not found at 0x358 >npx0 flags 8x1 on motherboard >npx0: INT 16 interface >pcm0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x13 on ISA >DEVFS: ready to run >rootfs is 1722 Kbyte compiled in MFS >NFS SWAP: 18.20.1.100:/usr/river/netpgc/swap >Dec 30 16:54:15 int: _secure_path: /etc/login.conf is not owned by root > >Dec 30 16:54:15 int: login_getclass: unknown class "daemon" >Dec 30 16:54:15 int: _secure_path: /etc/login.conf is not owned by root > >NetPGC Reboot in Progress >Generating Hosts File >Preserving kernel Messages >Starting standard daemons: syslogd >Starting networking daemons: inetd nfsiod >Warning: VDriverMod not loaded >Vesa int10h Mode/Port Switcher loaded >$ld:vnode.c.v 1.2 1998/10/29 22:29:20 cvrts Exp$ >--snip-- > >it looks to ME like they are using a variant of BSD to run their hotel >video hardware... i wonder if its also for handling movie and game >charges per room etc.?..?..?.. > >in any event... being the dork that i am... i thought this was pretty >cool.... and it was in a MAJOR hotel chain too :) > >if this doesn't apply because its not a question... i apologize.... er.. >well wait... here's my question --> >does anyone else have any ideas/thoughts on this?? > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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