UNIX V7

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Kirn Gill wrote:
> Graphics hardware on a server becomes useful if the server needs to be
> fixed.
> Though my idea of "graphics hardware" is a cheap VGA monitor and VESA
> text mode.
> Some of those VESA advanced text modes are nice.
> 132x60 is nice on a 21" display.
> 
> It's also good for debugging.
> 
> Otherwise, servers need no display, and should have no display.

Not really.  A serial console satisfies all those requirements.  It also 
has another advantage.  It's much easier to debug problems with a 
console itself when that console isn't a graphical one, with all the OS 
drivers, framebuffer chips, and other cruft that a graphical console brings.

Peace...  Sridhar