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Re: Editor wars considered harmful



On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jon Rabone wrote:
> >Or if anyone interested, make up a special ROM with kernel etc in it, so
> >the machine will boot from ROM...  Has anyone done this?

> You'd need about 512 kB of ROM. Where are you going to put it? Ethercard
> boot ROMS are more like 16 kB.

Bugger that.  How about 4 megs?  And make it an EPROM..... stash the
kernel and a basic root fs in there....  update as necessary with a rom
burner.  What would it take to procure a motherboard that supported that?

Don Dibos



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