HP 300

From: jarkko.teppo_at_er-grp.com <(jarkko.teppo_at_er-grp.com)>
Date: Wed May 23 00:34:03 2001

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:12:24AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Jarkko Teppo skrev:
>
> It won't use a serial console, unless told so via a HIL keyboard. If I had a
> HIL keyboard, I would not need a serial console.

Weird. I've *always* though that it would go to serial if you remove
the keyboard and/or the framebuffer. If I don't connect a HIL
keyboard on mine it prints out Blaablaa blaa press R for local console.
RS-232 is "remote console".

>
> >I love NFS as much as the next guy but if you start adding stuff
> >like NFS, why not have vnodes (well, you better have!) and once
> >you have vnodes why not start supporting different file systems...
> >A bit much for a PDP :)
>
> Why not support different file systems? And what is a vnode?

You'd better ask some resident PDP/2.11BSD guru but I can think
of the (relatively) small address space, segmentation and the like.
And at least I prefer running programs rather than just operating
systems on my machines:)

vnodes were originally an idea/implementation(?) by Sun:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/355180.html
Basically the vnode layer sits between the lower filesystem layers and
system calls. Gives you coherent access to different filesystems.

>
> What is an Altos?
>

I'm going to find out:)
-- 
jht
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