From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 21 09:36:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA25076 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM (Central.TanSoft.COM [206.175.4.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA25071 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:36:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dbj@localhost) by Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA01990; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:35:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:35:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Brooks Jr" X-Sender: dbj@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM To: Peter da Silva cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. In-Reply-To: <199610202215.RAA05830@bonkers.taronga.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Peter da Silva wrote: > In article <199610202019.GAA17009@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, > Bruce Evans wrote: > >Nah. life(1) takes only a small amount of assembly language: > > [deletia] > > Now *that* is something worth sticking in the boot sequence. It's a > cool hack, and it can do one generation per probe, you can see if it > hangs, and it's *way* cooler than anything Microsoft does. Especially if it can "grow" something cool, like "FreeBSD" or a rendition of the BSD Daemon (or both?) by the end of the probes. -- Dave -- David E. Brooks Jr / dbj@TanSoft.COM Phone: +1 502 897 5180 Tantalus Incorporated 130 Fairfax Avenue Suite 1D Louisville, KY 40207