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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7077 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:47:04 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!qwerty!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Hot-swapping 386BSD and MS-DOS Date: 18 Jan 1993 10:07:24 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1jdvgsINN40o@Germany.EU.net> References: <C0xJ54.7Ku@csi.compuserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net Keywords: Operating Systems In article <C0xJ54.7Ku@csi.compuserve.com>, ben@csi.compuserve.com (Benny Jones) writes: |> Has anyone pursued the notion of "swapping" between 386BSD and MS-DOS via |> software? While I know this is not easy, it does seem doable, especially |> if you can ensure that the OS is in some sort of quiescent state prior to |> switching. I'm envisioning something along the lines of a hot-key to do |> the swap. And it doesn't have to be instantaneous; 10 seconds would be |> acceptable to me. In the same vein: This could be used to do nasty things to those notebooks that come with a hard drive that switches itself off. No idea how this could be done, though. Cheers, Bernard -- === ____ === EUnet Deutschland GmbH === / / / ___ ___ _/_ === Emil-Figge-Str. 80 === /---- / / / / /___/ / === D-W-4600 Dortmund 50 === /____ /___/ / / /___ / === Germany ===== ===== Vox +49 231 755 2444 ===== Connecting Europe since 1982 ===== Fax +49 231 755 2386