12 Oct
2005
12 Oct
'05
6:05 a.m.
On 10/12/05, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 10/11/2005 at 8:34 PM Gil Carrick wrote:
Then my MSCP SCSI controller is a non-PC PC. It has UART to connect to
a terminal. It has SCSI storage. It has ROM and RAM. It is lacking an
OS but I believe FreeDOS can be ported.
vax, 9000
Sure, but my point was that it normally runs
without one so that saying a
device requires secondary storage and a console to be considered as
containing an OS is not a definition that is very useful.
I don't believe that's what I was saying. My definition of a "non-PC"
PC stipulated that the device have sufficient I/O for some sort of secondary storage and
the ability to drive a console, in addition to being able to host a more-or-less commodity
OS.