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From: Nessus <jandrese@vt.edu>
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Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup..
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On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote:

> Bill Paul wrote:
> 
> > Remember: we mutant ASCII terminal console users look just like the
> > rest of you; we're everywhere. And we'll be watching.
> 
> Definitely. The difference between operating systems and the other crap
> was always that one can work from VT100's on the former.
> 
IMHO, the spash page doesn't have to be in VGA, or even in graphics.  
Some very nicely done ASCII art (maybe a FreeBSD demon or something) 
would be very nice.  It would also be small, 2k at most, and backward 
compatable.  Of course there would still be a switch to turn it off too.

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