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On Tuesday 19 February 2008 22:27, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > It will not replace the current text menu ("beastie.4th"),
> > so you can still use it on your Hercules monochrome or CGA
> > machine or with serial console, of course.
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> We can probably forget about those configurations.

I hope you just missed the reference to serial console, rather than suggesting 
that serial console support is going to be dropped in favour of pretty 
pictures.

Jonathan