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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Is such a thing even possible?
Yes. It will have a bank of switches and a pushbutton. When you mess up the boot-loader, you hold down the push-button during power-on; the switches are then connected to the processor's bus, allowing you to set the switches and push the button to input one instruction at a time.

The 300-page hex dump of the OS may thus be entered, restoring the device from its bricked state.

Last edited by Benson; 2008-03-31 at 16:51.
 

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