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Date:      Wed, 07 Oct 1998 22:52:45 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Don <don@calis.BlackSun.org>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: interesting quote from http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/FAQ.html#A1 
Message-ID:  <199810080452.WAA11026@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:52:32 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.981008095110.1678B-100000@calis.BlackSun.org> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981008095110.1678B-100000@calis.BlackSun.org>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.981008095110.1678B-100000@calis.BlackSun.org> Don writes:
: 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?

Like/dislike has nothing to do with it.  The problem is that there are
many cheaper machines that simply do not have SRM on them at all.  A
prudent course would be to support both.  Dec has released enough
information to write a boot loader for the ARC/Alpha console (and
microsoft just released enough information to write one for ARC/Mips,
now that it is dead).

Warner

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