11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
2:24 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Kirn Gill wrote:
Even today, one of my favorite diagnostic tools is the two-digit display
on the front of RS/6000s.
Peace... Sridhar
Graphics hardware on a server becomes useful if
the server needs to be
fixed.
*A console* on a server becomes useful if the server needs to be
fixed. That console being a bit-mapped framebuffer with megabytes of
software required to support it adds huge amounts of complexity to a
debugging situation. Bad idea. This is why the very beefiest of
servers still have very simple serial consoles.