Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:35:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Brooks Jr" <dbj@MPGN.COM> To: Peter da Silva <peter@taronga.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.91.961021123245.1606A-100000@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM> In-Reply-To: <199610202215.RAA05830@bonkers.taronga.com>
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On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Peter da Silva wrote: > In article <199610202019.GAA17009@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, > Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> 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
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