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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:30:12 -0800
From: Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe - nvram
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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:46:57 -0700 (MST), Ronald G. Minnich
<rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Nigel Roles wrote:
> 
> > > Some motherboards, Intel desktop boards in particular, support a boot
> > > splash screen.  Perhaps you could use that area to store stuff (after
> > > making sure the bios is set to NOT display the splash screen!)

Actually, it could be very cool to store it in a format that was valid
for the splash screen, maybe some nice moire pattern.  It would be
nearly indecipherable by mere mortals, and would be a lot of (geek)
fun.

-Jack