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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) 
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 23:06:46 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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: The LCD display on Dell boxes was programmed by the 386BSD 0.1 boot to
: say something like "GO!!!".  I can't rememebr for sure.

The old Solbourne S4000 machine had a place you could plug in a device
to decode the POST, or other status messages.  When it was at the rom
prompt waiting for input, it would say FEED and then FACE and then
repeat.  vmunix did something boring: 8000 0800 0080 0008 :-(.

Warner