From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 23:34:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA02275 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 23:34:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA02229 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 23:34:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA19175; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 18:29:04 +1100 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 18:29:04 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199602010729.SAA19175@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, phk@critter.tfs.com Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >> I actually thought about this some time back, and have a suggestion >> for a ISA card: >If you're going to go to all that trouble, why not simply add a >low-cost CPU and a serial port to it? Then you could also hook an Even simpler: use a not-so-low-cost dual P5 system :-). Bruce