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- From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux,comp.os.mach,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
- Date: 7 Sep 92 19:13:38
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- In-reply-to: pereckas@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Mon, 7 Sep 1992 23:11:51 GMT
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- In article <Bu8Drt.2Ls@news.cso.uiuc.edu> pereckas@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (pereckas michael s) writes:
-
- >>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. :-) :-) :-)
-
- Here's an idea. Make new boot ROMS for intel based boxes that have a
- Sun like boot monitor *and* MS-DOS. If you use 1M flash ROMS it should
- be easy to fit it all and easy to upgrade. That way all the MS-DOS
- executables for configuring and testing hardware can be run easily
- without have to degrade the machine by installing MS-DOS on it.
-
- ++Brett;
-