[rescue] Why .* sucks (was Re: FDDI card)

[Andrew Weiss]

On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 06:32 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On Monday, February 25, 2002 at 08:35:38 (-0800), Josh Neal wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: [rescue] Why .* sucks (was Re: FDDI card)
>>
>> Yup. Intel did a decent job of adding serial console support their
>> "server" line of boards - the N440BX, L440GX and 450GX are good
>> examples. Alas, some PCI card BIOSes(Mylex!, goddamn them) hang when
>> you try to configure them via console. Sigh.
>
> They did no such thing.  The ServerBIOS serial console sucks a million
> dead monkeys through a million broken typewriters; and then it doesn't
> work.
>
> (and it wasn't Intel, but Phoenix)
>
>
Phoenix and Award Suck ass... whatever happened to good BIOS's like AMI?

Andrew