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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 07:47:58 -0600
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] port/devcons.c is not port-able
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Geoff Collyer wrote:

> > There are machines that don't have keyboard, uarts, or vga coming out now.
>
> Maybe I (we) should finally read ericvh's paper on Console Over
> Ethernet (actually over TCP) from a Usenix ago:
> http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/full_papers/kistler/kistler_html/.

I don't have the model number of the HP machine without serial, I put it
back in the box when I realized what a headache it would be.

The keyboard-less, vga-less, serial-less nodes are all blades at this
point.  [[some not sold yet ]]

ron