From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products Date: 7 Sep 1992 23:13:38 GMT
In article <Bu8Drt.2Ls@news.cso.uiuc.edu> pereckas@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (pereckas michael s) writes:
>>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. :-) :-) :-)
Here's an idea. Make new boot ROMS for intel based boxes that have a
Sun like boot monitor *and* MS-DOS. If you use 1M flash ROMS it should
be easy to fit it all and easy to upgrade. That way all the MS-DOS
executables for configuring and testing hardware can be run easily
without have to degrade the machine by installing MS-DOS on it.
++Brett;