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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/22/05, Richard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > -- In possibility the eternal, rightly understood, continually lays out only a small piece at a time In possibility the eternal is continually near enough to be at hand and yet far enough away to keep man advancing towards the eternal, on the way, in forward movement. In this way the ternal lures and draws a person, in the possible, from craddle to grave if he just chooses to hope <<Soren Kierkegaard>>
