Jacob H. Suter wrote:
> 
> I'd assume it'd be kinda easy to
> copy the contents of the ROM into some memory segment as the memory
> "managment" was initialized in the Kernel.
> 

  Ragge has mentioned that, at least on the MicroVAX II, the ROM character
output routines only work with the MMU turned off.  Someone (Bertram?) talked
about a hack to disable the MMU, print a character, and turn it back on again.
I don't know how far that got.

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