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- From: pereckas@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (pereckas michael s)
- Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
- References: <1992Sep6.210159.18607@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <lalqmgINNa96@needmore.cs.utexas.edu> <1992Sep7.133347.4433@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Sep7.204537.26238@mv.mv.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 23:11:51 GMT
- Keywords: Diamond, free-software
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- mem@mv.mv.com (Mark E. Mallett) writes:
-
- >Just as an aside, I have had to boot MSDOS to configure at least 2
- >cards for my ISC machine. Both were Ethernet cards: the 3c503 and the
- >WD 8013 (er, SMC Ethercard Plus Elite). Imagine my surprise (and, I'm
- >sure, that of many) to find that there was no facility for this under
- >UNIX, and that I had to go out and buy a copy of MSDOS.
-
- >I have also had to boot MSDOS just to run the diagnostics on nearly every
- >card.
-
- Just think of MS-DOS as a super ROM monitor that isn't in ROM, or a
- special hardware diagnostic/configuration mode. :-) :-) :-)
-
-
- --
- Michael Pereckas pereckas@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- Have you used the term ``nasal demons'' today?
-