On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Dave Burgess wrote:

> I have a group of older 486 boxes that have a similar (but precisely
> opposite) problem with 1.4 and pccons.  I was using wscons, and
> three or four of the black hearted little devils just wouldn't
> work. I found that I could get the system up by booting the machine
> and telneting into it.  Obviously, this is a suboptimal solution,
> and certainly doesn't go to the root cause of the problem, but once
> I get the machine.
> 
> It could certainly be argued that this can be a problem for any multi-
> platform system, but we see it far worse than any of the late comers.
> Developing a working video console implementation is hard enough in a
> development environment as "rich" as the PC; adding 30+ other ways of
> doing consoles can only make it more exciting.

	Would these be PCI based 486 machines similar to that of
	http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=10316
	?	

                David/absolute
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