From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 7 14:33:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27277 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:33:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from remler.nas.nasa.gov (remler.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27272 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:33:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@nas.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by remler.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA07477 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:32:54 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: remler.nas.nasa.gov: mjacob owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:32:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@nas.nasa.gov To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: interesting quote from http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/FAQ.html#A1 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 20.What is the Cyclades serial network for? A ``feature'' of DEC's AlphaBios is that a headless node will not automatically boot without a carriage return over the serial port. The Cyclades network was the best short-term solution to this problem, and also offered a diagnostic and control network which is independent of the ethernet. The serial network consists of Cyclades Cyclom 32-YeP multiport serial PCI cards and 20ft serial cables. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message