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From: dold@rahul.net (Clarence Dold)
Subject: Re: [Announcement] 386BSD Release 1.0
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Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 04:06:00 GMT
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Tim Smith (tzs@u.washington.edu) wrote:
: 0x80. The system would then boot from it. Heck, if the people who wrote
: the host adaptor firmware wanted to, they could support booting from a
: scanner...
Odd that you should mention that particular peripheral. Urban legend at
Unisys indicates that a particular BIOS would indeed attempt a boot from a
scanner. Or at least it would read some info from it ;-)
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