[rescue] x86 vs. SPARC BIOSes (was: Small servers (was Re: WTT: 1.5G of PC2700 for 1G of PC100))

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 8, 2008, at 23:53 , Ian Finder wrote:

> What I'd like to find is a server with an always available embedded
> supervisor processor that provides ethernet and serial connections for
> configuration, and unlike some SPs I've seen (like in the SunFire

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That's what a Data General MV20000 supermini I worked on had.  It had  
a small computer that ran the big one, and you could talk to it  
without booting the big one.

Very useful.

It's 2008, 20 years later... surely we have the ability to do this so  
cheaply it should not matter.

Normal users will never see it, so what?

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Shannon Hendrix
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