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Date:      Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:37:57 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Cc:        phk@critter.tfs.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, dgy@rtd.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards)
Message-ID:  <199602020107.LAA25538@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199602012052.OAA09429@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Feb 1, 96 02:52:11 pm

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Joe Greco stands accused of saying:
> > Well, the one feature I miss from this is this:
> > 	Add (BIOS-extension) Eprom which redirects all output to the
> > 	screen so that it can be used on a remote console too.  (Think
> > 	"bios-setup" here...)
> 
> Yes, I agree, but I have no idea whether this is do-able, feasible, or even
> possible.  I'd certainly like that though.

Serial video card 8)  I don't know whether the BIOS makes assumtions about
6845 CRTC registers or not that early.  There's obviously a ROM scan
first though (note the video BIOS signs on before the main BIOS).

Anyone out there ever written a video BIOS?

> ... JG

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