From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 7 20:27:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03822 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles134.castles.com [208.214.165.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03797 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:26:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00404; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:31:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810080331.UAA00404@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Don cc: Matthew Jacob , Mike Smith , mjacob@sally.nas.nasa.gov, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interesting quote from http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/FAQ.html#A1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:52:32 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 20:31:03 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Why we don't want to use the ARC console, hmm? > > Yes- I agree- except that it's possible that SRM will disappear > > for newer board level alpha products. > > Do people actually like arc console? the srm console is so much easier to > use and so much more console like in the first place. Does anyone really > want to go the direction of menus and such by using a microsoft bios? The problem is that the SRM console isn't available for many systems. If we want to boot on them, we have to support ARC. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message