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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:31:33 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> As far as I know, there is only OSF and NT.

AKA "SRM" and "ARC" consoles.

> Linux requires the OSF.  The version of the OSF PAL code that comes

Bzzzt, sorry.  Linux actually works best with the ARC console though,
if you compile your kernel to support it, it will apparently boot from
the SRM console as well.  So the correct answer is that Linux will
support both ARC and SRM consoles, DUX and *BSD only SRM.

					Jordan