Re: Re (2): SparcStation 2 POST

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> For routine use, yes, use video (if you have it and want it).  For
>> early debugging, on Suns of that era, nothing beats serial.
> Was it Sun 3 (3/60) that was able to "boot" to serial console even
> with no RAM installed? :-)

!!  I don't recall seeing any machine do that, though, to be fair, I
don't recall trying it very often, and then only by mistake.  (It would
probably be easier on a SPARC; if you own the machine - don't care
about an OS or other processes - you have quite a lot of registers
available, though you have to shift windows to access most of them.)

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