Ralf> On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:21:57AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Well IRIX boxes tend to have a PROM in which there is a file system
>> and a disk driver, thus when the system goes totally boink they can
>> escape to those and still do the core dump. That is pretty hard on
>> todays PC hardware.
Ralf> Nope, IRIX writes the kernel core itself ...
Ralf> Aside, the PROMs are rather primitive.
Then I sure hope they keep backup fs+disk drivers somewhere so if
there is memory corruption they are not going to blow up your data on
disk.
The level of the PROM support varies with the hw vendor I guess.
Jes
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