[rescue] FDDI card

[Andrew Weiss]

>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:08:07PM +1300, Kenneth Dunn wrote:
>>>
>>>> 3) That whole keyboard & monitor thing.  Sun/Alpha/SGI/etc machines 
>>>> all
>>>> have BUILT-IN serial consoles.  The closest thing you can get to a 
>>>> true
>>>> serial console on a PeeCee is the PC Weasel, but all that really 
>>>> does is
>>>> emulate the monitor & keyboard...turns it into a serial stream.
>>>
>>> If you're not accustomed to serial consoles then it is a non-issue.
>>
>> actually, if someone thinks that GUI consoles are the best way to deal 
>> with
>> SERVERS then it's obvious that not only are they not accustomed to 
>> serial
>> consoles, they don't know any better.  GUI consoles are LUDICROUS.
>
I think GUI consoles could be good if:

1. A serial console (real one) was always available
2. They were in hardware.  (The best BIOS I ever had was an AMI BIOS 
with built-in mouse driver on a 486)
3. In hardware they ran as a separate process and could make live 
changes and be made fail-safe via rollbacks.

Note this is of course not a GUI console in the sense of NT.  It would 
be a souped up and more graphical (icons and mouse support) version of 
the SGI consoles with full network support. (ICA in firmware)

Andrew