Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 03:57:04 -0500 From: Jerry Hicks <wghhicks@ix.netcom.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, mini@d198-232.uoregon.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x86 gods; advice? Suggestions? Message-ID: <34657AE0.1AFD9984@ix.netcom.com> References: <199711090806.SAA00646@word.smith.net.au>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > Well, in the bad old days, I would probably have reached for Forth. > > > > There is some precedent for this approach over at Sun... > > > > > > OpenBoot is big and expensive. > > > > And it doesn't lock you into x86 to run the BIOS on video cards... > > where's the fun in that? > > I don't give a shit what it doesn't do, Terry. What *I* care about is > that OpenBoot is big, it is expensive and proprietary, and it is a > complete crock from the POV of usability. > > Sorry, that's just the way it is. 8( > > mike Yeah, ain't it a shame tho... (back to basement, red-eyed, cursing forth...) J. Hicks
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