From: pereckas@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (pereckas michael s) Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 23:11:51 GMT
mem@mv.mv.com (Mark E. Mallett) writes:
>Just as an aside, I have had to boot MSDOS to configure at least 2
>cards for my ISC machine. Both were Ethernet cards: the 3c503 and the
>WD 8013 (er, SMC Ethercard Plus Elite). Imagine my surprise (and, I'm
>sure, that of many) to find that there was no facility for this under
>UNIX, and that I had to go out and buy a copy of MSDOS.
>I have also had to boot MSDOS just to run the diagnostics on nearly every
>card.
Just think of MS-DOS as a super ROM monitor that isn't in ROM, or a
special hardware diagnostic/configuration mode. :-) :-) :-)
-- Michael Pereckas pereckas@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Have you used the term ``nasal demons'' today?