[rescue] FDDI card

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:41:12AM -0500, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> 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)

but why do you need gui?  there is not a single task that the console of a
machine needs to perform that is so complex that it requires a GUI console.

there is no reason why you need to add the complexity of a GUI console to a
machine, it is a) a waste, and b) and extra 3 or 4 things that can go wrong
when it's time for shit to go wrong.

stick to a 9600 8N1 console, and you can't do wrong.

-brian

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