[mrweasel]

I'm pretty sure that a lot of the older hardware at least require some degree of hands on administration. Rebuilding an testing a new kernel on a VAX with no remote administration features would slow things down. Having stuff easily available makes a lot of sense to me.

[kps]

Not likely. Everything of that sort has a simple serial console port.

[mrweasel]

Sorry, forgot about that. Still it not a nice way of managing a server.