From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 7 21:53:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17684 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 21:53:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA17667 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 21:53:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0zR84Z-0004WJ-00; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:53:07 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id WAA11026; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:52:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199810080452.WAA11026@harmony.village.org> To: Don Subject: Re: interesting quote from http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/FAQ.html#A1 Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:52:32 EDT." References: Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 22:52:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message