[rescue] Sunpc Card

[Michael Schiller]

"Loomis, Rip" wrote:
> 
> When Sun got around to creating the SunPCI card, they had learned
> some lessons and made it almost independent of the host processor/
> OS--it's possible to install Linux/x86 (or *BSD/x86)
> on a SunPCI card and have that running inside your SPARC, based
> on reliable report.  The second generation SunPCI cards that
> have their own on-board Ethernet are the really cool ones,
> though.
> 
One thing I wish the SunPCi cards could/would do is boot up at system
startup, rather than having to be started by a logged in user. I was
going to install Win2k on mine rather than Win98 or the unsupported
WinME that I currently have on mine, but why use a multi-user capable
(or so it thinks, it's still an MS product) when the machine boots only
when the user starts the window interface program? I used to have an
Amiga 2000 with a Bridgeboard in it (yup, PC on a card for the Amiga),
and it would boot with the machine, and the program to use it was simply
a window to the virtual screen. I mean, if SunPCi can run a multi user
OS on a multi-user machine (any Sun), why not make the interface program
a window so that multiple users can have windows open?

-Mike

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