in reply to Funny Messages in OSS

In the old MSDOS-days if you booted the computer with the keyboard disconnected, the OS said : "Keyboard missing or broken; press any key to continue.".

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: Funny Messages in OSS
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 02, 2003 at 21:12 UTC
    That was the BIOS: Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

[reply]
      But that was actually usefull. I see it as an abbreviation - you need to connect the keyboard and then press F1.
[reply]

In Section Meditations