On Sat, 31 May 1997 23:35:44 +1000 (EST) 
 Karl Maftoum <k.maftoum@student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:

 > As I said before I was thinking about something like the old minix 
 > monitor/bootloader.. it was very good, there is no need for the monitor 
 > but I remember the bootloader being quite decent

Having never had the pleasure to run Minix (the first Unix-like OS
I ran on my PC was 386BSD :-), I don't know what features its bootloader
offered.  Can you outline them for us?

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