[H-GEN] Call for suggestions

[Martin Pool]

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Jason Henry Parker wrote:

> The question now is finding something to *do* with it; do any
> humbuggers have any suggestions for hack-worthy things for this box to
> do?  Keep in mind it's a 486 with 12 megs of ram, running diskless.
> That said, there is about 140MB available to install an operating
> system on, as well as a monitor and PC keyboard.

Screw around with the kernel, now you have a machine you're not afraid
to damage -- try hacking Mach/HURD, or implementing a filesystem or
something ;-)  (Well, I guess it needs at least a little disk to do
that, but you get the idea.)  Copy the new kernel onto the bootarea and
reboot the machine, if it crashes or damages itself nothing is lost. 
You could even run the serial kgdb to your real machine.

--
Martin

Anyone who finds _Programming Python_ "too cute" needs to have holes
drilled
in his head to let the evil spirits out. -- Charles Evans

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