Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:41:22 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Tom <tom@sdf.com> Subject: Re: Serial Keyboards Message-ID: <XFMail.980323184122.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <19980324130235.21267@freebie.lemis.com>
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On 24-Mar-98 Greg Lehey wrote: > (following up to -chat) > > 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 $15. > > Maybe he can touch-type. That's a concept that the designers of the > PC keyboards don't seem to have considered. :-) N-Key Rollover they used to call it. My mother-in-law can outtype M$word to the point of crashing (150 WPM). I still use three fingers and look at the keyboard. ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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