Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 21:39:37 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: Dan O'Connor <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> Cc: nathan <beemern@ksu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: you'll like this.,.. maybe (Seriously Off Topic...) Message-ID: <387A97E9.A988D5DC@twave.net> References: <01be01bf5bda$a03836e0$0200000a@danco.home>
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Dan O'Connor wrote: > Interesting. > > I once saw an EDS ATM machine at 7-Eleven reboot after a power failure. The > little screen showed that it was a 386 machine with 16MB ram. It complained > about not having a keyboard connected, then booted (of all things) OS/2, > loaded the program manager (which looked like Windows 3.0) and then the ATM > application... > > --Dan > > ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... > ** You can download FreeBSD with it! > > -----Original Message----- > From: nathan <beemern@ksu.edu> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 4:30 PM > Subject: you'll like this.,.. maybe > > >personally... i found this pretty cool --> while vacationing over the > >holidays, i was channel surfing in my hotel room when i came across the > >following displayed on channel 0... previously, channel 0 had just been > >running a short video loop describing the services etc the hotel > >offered... > >but... here's what i saw instead > > > >--snip-- > >sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags:8x8> > >sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on ISA > >sio0: type 16550A > >fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on ISA > >fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold > >ep0 not found at 0x358 > >npx0 flags 8x1 on motherboard > >npx0: INT 16 interface > >pcm0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x13 on ISA > >DEVFS: ready to run > >rootfs is 1722 Kbyte compiled in MFS > >NFS SWAP: 18.20.1.100:/usr/river/netpgc/swap > >Dec 30 16:54:15 int: _secure_path: /etc/login.conf is not owned by root > > > >Dec 30 16:54:15 int: login_getclass: unknown class "daemon" > >Dec 30 16:54:15 int: _secure_path: /etc/login.conf is not owned by root > > > >NetPGC Reboot in Progress > >Generating Hosts File > >Preserving kernel Messages > >Starting standard daemons: syslogd > >Starting networking daemons: inetd nfsiod > >Warning: VDriverMod not loaded > >Vesa int10h Mode/Port Switcher loaded > >$ld:vnode.c.v 1.2 1998/10/29 22:29:20 cvrts Exp$ > >--snip-- > > > >it looks to ME like they are using a variant of BSD to run their hotel > >video hardware... i wonder if its also for handling movie and game > >charges per room etc.?..?..?.. > > > >in any event... being the dork that i am... i thought this was pretty > >cool.... and it was in a MAJOR hotel chain too :) > > > >if this doesn't apply because its not a question... i apologize.... er.. > >well wait... here's my question --> > >does anyone else have any ideas/thoughts on this?? > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Just goes to show, if you have an app that MUST keep running, Windows is last choice! Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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