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Date:      Tue, 24 Mar 1998 13:02:35 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        shimon@simon-shapiro.org, Tom <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Serial Keyboards
Message-ID:  <19980324130235.21267@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980323183137.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>; from Simon Shapiro on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 06:31:37PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980323173354.17474A-100000@misery.sdf.com> <XFMail.980323183137.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>

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On Mon, 23 March 1998 at 18:31:37 -0800, Simon Shapiro wrote:
> On 24-Mar-98 Tom wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Looking at syscons.c, pcvt/* and sio.c makes me think that this won't
>>> be easy or simple to do, but that it is possible to do it with enough
>>> hacking....
>>
>>   Well, since it is serial, working with the serial console code is
>> probably closest.
>
> Except that he probably would like to have stdout and stderr (and
> console?) still go to the VGA board.
>
> Why would anyone want that, is a good question.  A NEW PC KB is $15.

Maybe he can touch-type.  That's a concept that the designers of the
PC keyboards don't seem to have considered.

Greg

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