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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 1995 21:29:55 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org, fenner@parc.xerox.com
Subject:   Re: userconfig doesn't work on tvi925
Message-ID:  <199509121159.VAA21994@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199509120630.XAA12900@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Sep 11, 95 11:30:52 pm

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Paul Traina stands accused of saying:
> QED, you can boot the kernel, get into user mode, and run the fancy program.
> If my logic is false, then you STILL have the old dumb-terminal userconfig
> program for emergency hardware changes or initial boot without a reboot.

So great; you get into user mode, you run the fancy program, and where do 
you save your results?  Can't write it into the kernel; it's compressed.
Can't write it to the harddisk; you don't have a driver.

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