From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 12 04:48:47 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA03775 for current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 04:48:47 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA03769 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 04:48:45 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA21994; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 21:29:56 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199509121159.VAA21994@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: userconfig doesn't work on tvi925 To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 21:29:55 +0930 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org, fenner@parc.xerox.com In-Reply-To: <199509120630.XAA12900@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Sep 11, 95 11:30:52 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 855 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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! [[