>I've seen that on some old 386 (or was it a 286?), Phoenix BIOS. There
>were very few settings, but one of them was "serial console at ___".
>With that, you're able to see the video id and the memory countdown on
>a VT. Whoopeee. I never ended up running NetBSD on that machine; the
>same junk pile had a better 386.

heh.  i can beat that.  a friend of mine has a motherboard with a unix
jumper on it.  he has no idea what it does (the board never booted; he
collects old hardware), but i still think it's pretty wacky.

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