On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:41:01AM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Kenn Humborg wrote:
>> > Of course, _real_ computers have firmware that detects bad RAM and
> > passes a list of good RAM areas to the booting kernel...
>> this hardware you speak of wouldn't perchance be of the family that
> succeeded the family of hardware that Unix was born on, hardware only
> recently discontinued by the company that bought the company that
> made this hardware?
:-)
> And the OS wouldn't perchance be the OS that has been established
> recently on this list as NOT being older than Unix?
Any OS, actually. The VAX firmware is quite OS-agnostic, except
for some VMS-isms in the way it names devices.
> if only there was a linux port to this hardware you speak of....
Patience, grasshopper, patience...
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/hypermail/linux-vax/0788.html
Later,
Kenn
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