Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 00:21:46 -0500 (EST) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Message-ID: <199602010521.AAA19488@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199602010115.LAA20591@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 1, 96 11:45:41 am
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> Joe Greco stands accused of saying: > > > Now before you write me off as crazy, let me explain further... I don't > > know how many of us had seen IBM's PC-RT from the late '80's, but one nice > > feature it had was a POST code display on the front panel. Useful for > > debugging. However, once AOS (IBM's 4.3BSD UNIX) was up and running, > > something cute happened: UNIX started putting out the current load average > > on the POST display. This tended to give a really warm fuzzy about what was > > happening (or not happening) on the box, and when you have a machine room > > with a dozen systems racked and stacked it would be nice to have it. > > A POST code reader was described a few years back in one of the Boy. I'd love that on my AIX machines... the leds just go blank after booting. Actually an add-on 11/70 front panel would be even nicer 8-). Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | The postmaster always pings twice. Lakewood MicroSystems | 17 Meredith Drive, 908-389-3592 | Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 pechter@shell.monmouth.com |
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