From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 23 16:35:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D1F37B5BE for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:35:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p39-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.104]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id JAA23779; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:35:00 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38DAB405.C57FD8F4@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:17:09 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Vivek Khera , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brandon D. Valentine" wrote: > > On i386 machines this is usually something lame like: > NO ROM BASIC > SYSTEM HALTED > despite the fact that no machine has included a ROM BASIC since the last > of the IBM PS/2 386s came out. However most of the BIOSes until *very* > recently still contained code that would check for a ROM BASIC after > searching the entire drive list and try booting from that. Now if only > we could convince them to put that back in except have it look for a > forth interpreter in ROM. Nah, that's the wrong approach. The right approach is for that BIOS *be* written in Forth to begin with. OpenBoot, anyone? :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@zurichgnomes.bsdconspiracy.net One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message