[rescue] Sun crushes the used Sun market

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Tue Jul 5 03:06:17 CDT 2005


On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

>> It's Windows-compatible, so I would assume so.
>
> I was holding out hope for a dual-BIOS like some of the Alphas had.
> It had a Windows-ish BIOS, but also the standard DEC ROM too.

ARC wasn't -too- PC-like.  For what it tried to accomplish, it got the
job done.  It even had a sane device tree.

I still think that OpenFirmware/OpenBoot beats all, though.

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