Subject: Re: Serial console causing "crash"
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Martijn van Buul <martijn.van.buul@gmail.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/06/2004 08:22:39
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 05:40:25 +0000 (UTC), Michael van Elst
<mlelstv@serpens.de> wrote:
> martijn.van.buul@gmail.com (Martijn van Buul) writes:
> 
> >Unless your real terminal is a VT220. In which case it does.
> 
> Real terminals aren't connected to a DTE, if you turn them
> off the host sees a dropped carrier.
> 

Unless you connect over DEC MMJ cabling. Because you're connecting to
a microPDP-11/53, which has MMJ ports for console.

Been there, done that, got the Octal/Online Debugging Tool. Which is
even less useful to mortal users than a kernel debugger, I might add
;)

(And which requires rewiring of backplanes to disable)

-- 
Martijn van Buul, martijn.van.buul@gmail.com