[rescue] Re: Apple HW Rumors

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, August 13, 2002 at 12:26:45 (-0500), Scott Newell wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: Apple HW Rumors
>
> >> you can boot any modern apple laptop with openfirmware from a serial
> >> console.  why should the xserve be any different?
> >
> >Great.  Now my apple laptop just needs a serial port.
> >
> >I'd hate to buy a USB->RS232 dongle and find it doesn't work.
> 
> For that to work, wouldn't it require the USB software stack to be in rom
> or forth?  If so, I'm impressed!

Yeah, and I'm presuming that the examples I spoke of are only the models
which had native serial ports, in which case I must be mistaken about
the Ti-book.

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