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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:24:52 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net>, Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?
Message-ID:  <3857B2C4.3CA62441@newsguy.com>
References:  <51308.945234648@zippy.cdrom.com>

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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> 
> VESA syscons, either using libvgl and an array of crude widgets or
> something like MGR and its widget set, has long been on the wish-list
> but I didn't even include it in my summary since it's still very much
> a pipe-dream. :-)  There's actually one mode you forgot, which is

Since no one seems to have spoken of it yet... GGI! GGI! I bet their X
server is far smaller than XFree's, and we don't even _have_ to usa an X
server.

> what I call "text mode", and that's straight ascii prompts, no CUI-style
> dialog boxes or anything.  Think about text-to-speach devices for
> the blind or serial consoles attached to really *dumb* terminals. :-)

Sounds like CLI. :-)

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
who is as social as a wampas

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