Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:

> Besides, Java and virtual USB keyboards, whatever happened to
> serial consoles on high-end servers?

Those machines also have a real serial console (also provided by the
service processor) but from my past experiences with serial access to
PCs (using a BIOS setup, tailored for full-screen VGA access, over a
serial connection is _not_ fun) I am glad the initial setup can be
done with this Java applet.  

ciao
     Klaus