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Date:      Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:51:24 -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.980323185124.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980324130917.49302@freebie.lemis.com>

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On 24-Mar-98 Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Mon, 23 March 1998 at 18:41:22 -0800, Simon Shapiro wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>>>> 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).
> 
> You need to type fast to do that?

No, but if you do that it will (also) crash.

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Sincerely Yours, 

Simon Shapiro
Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG                      Voice:   503.799.2313

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