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Date:      Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:03:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Robert Huff <rhuff@cybercom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: horrible hack / SRM console
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901081102250.2496-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <199901081854.NAA01951@shell1.cybercom.net>

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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Robert Huff wrote:

> 
> Matthew Jacob writes:
> 
> >  This is a perennial problem. At some point *BSD is going to have
> >  to consider how to work under ARC or AlphaBIOS.
> 
> 	Last I heard this had been considered and rejected, based on:
> 
> 	1) the lack of difficulty in obtaining a SRM-using board, or
> installing it afterward.
> 	2) ARC, while technically usable, is clearly The Wrong Choice.
> 


#2 is the wrong answer. By the same argument, I'd say that 99.5% of the
intel based PC motherboards out there are wrong (crappiest engineering
since the Pinto) and should just vanish, and I'm going to hold my breath
until they do.

-matt



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