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Date:      Mon, 10 Jan 2000 21:39:37 -0500
From:      Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net>
To:        Dan O'Connor <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us>
Cc:        nathan <beemern@ksu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: you'll like this.,.. maybe (Seriously Off Topic...)
Message-ID:  <387A97E9.A988D5DC@twave.net>
References:  <01be01bf5bda$a03836e0$0200000a@danco.home>

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Dan O'Connor wrote:

> 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??
> >
> >
> >
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Just goes to show, if you have an app that MUST keep running, Windows is last
choice!

Walter



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