Re: [9fans] First-timer help

[LiteStar numnums <litestar@gmail.com>]

If by 'interesting' you mean 'a rather odd conglomerate of Unix and
OpenVMS smashed into a small space', then I would agree. It was even
more fun to boot WinNT on my first alpha... and try to figure out how
to disable the stupid ARC junk... =)
-- Stefan

On 7/22/05, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/05, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > > it will be even more fun with the newer BIOSes (e.g. EFI) that support
> > > arbitrary driver modules, tasks, and can even run programs. All stored on
> > > a flash file system on the mainboard.
> >
> > Didn't HP (many years ago) make a desktop machine with Unix in ROM?
> >
> > -- Richard
> >
> 
> SRM firmware was almost unixy enough on DEC Alphas...  But it could be
> "interesting" at times
> 
> >
> 


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