Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:47:25 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE: a patch and a problem Message-ID: <199603130747.IAA10658@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603122339.PAA14481@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 12, 96 03:39:08 pm
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As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > Absolutely not. Storing stuff in the CMOS by an OS is a nasty and > very risky thing to do. It may be unused today, but that is the BIOS > writters land, and playing in that land is asking for problems down > the road. I've only been half-serious about this. If all BIOSes would follow the conventions to use bit 3 of the `equipment byte' for ``Graphics disabled'', however, this would be a nice decision. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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