On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> [Nochangenik mode on]
> 
> The ability to generate a break from a remote terminal to take the
> system into the PROM is very useful.

Oh, quite! I wasn't proposing to remove the facility; just to be
able to turn it off (or on) with an options line in the kernel
config file.

cjs

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