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Re: How did tty booting work?

From Rikishi42 <skunkworks@rikishi42.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: How did tty booting work?
Date 2013-04-09 23:31 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <0ude3a-n4c.ln1@murmur.very.softly> (permalink)
References <kk0tm4$ju1$1@dont-email.me>

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On 2013-04-09, Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com <Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com> wrote:
> In olden times they booted via a teletypewriter.
>
> So if you wanted to setup your system to do so now, could
> you write a script or make a setting to logon by paper-tty
> OR normal VGA/keybrd, depending which keybrd replied first.
> Or even better: both, like 2 mice can both talk.
>
> THEN how would you extend that to:
> boot with stdOut being a existsing routine that writes to the
> parallel-port ?

Blasphemy. Surely you mean the serial port !

RS232 or nothing !


Have fun with your project, whish I could help.
Keep us updated.
:-)


-- 
When in doubt, use brute force.
                -- Ken Thompson

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How did tty booting work? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2013-04-09 11:22 +0000
  Re: How did tty booting work? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-04-09 07:54 -0500
    Re: How did tty booting work? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2013-04-10 13:45 +0000
      Re: How did tty booting work? Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2013-04-10 16:43 +0200
      Re: How did tty booting work? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-10 16:01 +0100
        Re: How did tty booting work? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-04-10 10:11 -0500
          Re: How did tty booting work? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2013-04-10 15:15 +0000
            Re: How did tty booting work? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-04-10 16:44 +0100
              Re: How did tty booting work? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2013-04-10 16:12 +0000
                Re: How did tty booting work? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2013-04-11 14:36 +0000
                Re: How did tty booting work? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2013-04-11 19:16 +0000
                Re: How did tty booting work? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-04-29 12:26 +0000
  Re: How did tty booting work? Rikishi42 <skunkworks@rikishi42.net> - 2013-04-09 23:31 +0200
    Re: How did tty booting work? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2013-04-17 18:21 +0000
  Re: How did tty booting work? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2013-04-13 00:34 +0000
    Re: How did tty booting work? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2013-04-12 22:34 -0400
      Re: How did tty booting work? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-13 03:57 +0100
    Re: How did tty booting work? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-04-13 09:14 +0100
      Re: How did tty booting work? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-04-13 07:41 -0500
        Re: How did tty booting work? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2013-04-13 10:19 -0600

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