[rescue] Sunpc Card

[Eric Webb]

On Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:01 am, you wrote:
>
> 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?

Remember that the bridgeboard was mostly just a ROM board, IIRC, and had no 
actual target system hardware.  I thought it was 100% software-based.  At 
that rate, though, you could theoretically emulate anything using it...

-E.