From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 8 13:46:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15555 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 13:46:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15526 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 13:46:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00528; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 13:49:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810082049.NAA00528@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: mjacob@nas.nasa.gov cc: Jacques Vidrine , Don , Matthew Jacob , Mike Smith , 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 12:07:07 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 13:49:15 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Does ARC run on a serial console, by the way? > > I don't know. I'd like to point out that the original BIOS specification > allowed for serial consoles. I doubt whether any have been implemented > with that feature since 1983. The quad Xeon Intel box we have here has serial BIOS support. It uses ANSI colour sequences and works just fine in an xterm, even to the point that you can run the Adaptec BIOS setup over it. -- \\ 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