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PC Weasel 2000 : Intro: "Unlike a 'real' server, a PC with a conventional BIOS can't be fully administered from a serial (RS-232) console port. Sure, once the OS is up and running it'll support a serial console, but if you want to take the system down to the BIOS (to select a different boot device, for example), you have to drag out the video monitor and keyboard. In remote applications, that just isn't an option.

The PC Weasel provides the answer by emulating a video board and keyboard and presenting a serial port to the outside world. Plugged into an available ISA or PCI slot, it takes the characters written by your CPU into its 'video' memory and pumps them out its onboard RS-232 port. Characters input by you into the RS-232 port are converted into keyboard scan codes and presented to the motherboard's keyboard connector."

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