On: What Sun got wrong

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Path dependence again. x86 servers in the 1990s had to have VGA so it was never removed. (Except Oxide.)

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Oxide happened long after (U)EFI brought proper serial support to boot process

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Yet every UEFI server has VGA and remote KVM.

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Because pretty much every BMC out there in last decade is shipping AST2400/2500/2600 which include VGA and you want to deal with cases where people do not know how to navigate serial console, especially in case of windows servers