Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:07:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Message-ID: <199601312207.PAA10957@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199601311739.LAA07197@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jan 31, 96 11:39:58 am
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> However, once AOS (IBM's 4.3BSD UNIX) was up and running, > something cute happened: UNIX started putting out the current load average > on the POST display. This tended to give a really warm fuzzy about what was > happening (or not happening) on the box, and when you have a machine room > with a dozen systems racked and stacked it would be nice to have it. The LCD display on Dell boxes was programmed by the 386BSD 0.1 boot to say something like "GO!!!". I can't rememebr for sure. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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