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Date:      Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:13:58 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
Cc:        John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and the shift to 'web services'
Message-ID:  <20010627171357.A12856@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0106270912010.80919-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>; from dscheidt@tumbolia.com on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:18:01AM -0500
References:  <20010627143033.A7900@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0106270912010.80919-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>

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On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:18:01AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
| On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, j mckitrick wrote:
| 
| :| of these: previous to the Palm3, the OS ROM wasn't flashable.  The FUN use
| :| of the Palm I recently heard about was using the sync cradle and TopGun to
| :| serial-boot a Sparc5. :)
| :
| :How would you do *that* ?
| :
| 
| You plug the plam's cradle into the serial port, and use a terminal emulator
| on the palm to talk to the machine.  I've done this with Suns, Ciscos, HPss,

I guess what i was unfamiliar with is the term 'serial-boot.'  It sounded
like more than just a terminal session.



Jonathon
--
Microsoft complaining about the source license used by 
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