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From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To: Raul Zighelboim <mango@staff.communique.net>
Subject: RE: serial console
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Hi Raul Zighelboim;  On 26-Aug-97 you wrote: 
>  
>  Hello there!
>  
>  Does anyone knows of a PC BIOS that will send boot information to a
>  serial console (and accept keyboar imput from the serial console instead
>  of the local graphic/keyboard combination ?
>  
>  Is this possible at all on an Intel PC ?

Yes, it is possible.  No PC's are NOT an Intel invention.
Try looking into Texas Micro, Industrial Computer Source, HP, DEC, etc.
Any industrial PC will do just that.

The BIOS on one I saw was AMI, Phoenix on the other.

Simon