29 Feb
2008
29 Feb
'08
12:53 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I'm curious why anyone would want a front panel
with lights and
switches. Except for some early IBM mainframe stuff, the number of
systems that I've worked with that had no front panel vastly
outnumber the ones that did.
Same here. In fact, I'm young enough that, even though I grew up around
a machine with lights and switches, I never used one on a daily basis.
However, it's fun and cool. Maybe even exciting, in a perverse way.
And it can be damn impressive to write a bootloader into RAM from memory.
Peace... Sridhar