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. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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