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Date:      Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:33:42 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@sarnoff.com>
Cc:        Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, Brandon Gillespie <brandon@glacier.cold.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: splash-page on bootup.. 
Message-ID:  <199609231833.LAA06327@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 13:08:40 -0400 (EDT) 
 "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> wrote:

 > splash page is a bad idea. Makes things much more complex, adds 
 > opportunities for bugs ...

...I've been sort of reading this thread a bit... And, one thing
that occurs to me...

If you have a splash screen, really, you _have_ to put the image in
the kernel executable... After all, how are you supposed to read it
off disk if you haven't done autoconfiguration yet (which displays
those icky messages! :-)?

Seems like a complete waste to me...

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