HP 300

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Wed May 23 09:39:49 2001

jarkko.teppo skrev:

>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".

At least the NetBSD FAQ says that one has to go via the keyboard for the 380.
Removing the framebuffer yielded nothing. I suppose I should have a go with a
real terminal the next time.

>> >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:)

LOL, there's a difference between us. Most of my computers perform no useful
tasks at all.

>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.

My, isn't that an *hrm* novel, interesting and new-fangled idea.

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