From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 15 15:49:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA25377 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:49:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA25363 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:49:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA06371; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 16:47:43 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199702152347.QAA06371@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC? To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 16:47:43 -0700 (MST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, terry@lambert.org, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, patrick@xinside.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199702152232.OAA05103@lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at Feb 15, 97 02:32:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > For those of us who've never seen a Solaris2 machine boot up, could > > > you perhaps tell us (though config@freebsd.org would be perhaps a > > > better mailing list on which to do it) what it looks like and what > > > about it you found so attractive? > > > > Remember the boot splash discussion? > > > > Now you know. > > Except that Solaris doesn't _have_ a boot splash screen. > > Well, on a SPARC there's a little picture embedded in the ROM that prints at > boot up, but that has nothing to do with Solaris. For that matter, my PC > has a little AMI BIOS logo when it boots up. > > Is there some PC UNIX that _does_ have a boot splash screen? A "splash screen", loosely defined, is "any screen that hides what is really happing, while giving the user something thought to be less confusing to look at". UnixWare has a splash screen in the *strict* definition: You see the UnixWare boot image, you don't see intermediate stuff, as long as all goes as planned and you don't hit "space" during the first yay many seconds of the booth, then you see a graphical login. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.