Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 23:31:41 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thinkpad 760ELD w/ 3com pcmcia 3c589 ins Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961105232358.15366A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <16402.847253294@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Personally, I was kinda disappointed that the Sys Rq key didn't do
> > anything, since that one was supposed to be used on big important
> > mainframes, and I'd kinda been thinking FreeBSD was that sorta OS!
>
> Maybe if you had a good suggestion for what the stupid key is even
> supposed to do?
Maybe scroll some message across the screen...
"FreeBSD is a mainframe OS!" :)
I've never even known what it stands for, to be fair, though... ("SYStems
ReQuired"? "SYStems bReaQ"? "SYStem wReck"?)
> They are remappable, BTW - you don't need to have a given key perform
> a specific function, and if you wanted, say, the system to drop into
> the kernel debugger every time you hit ESC, well, that's an easy thing
> to put in your keymap. :-)
Kernel debugger ... vi command mode -- what's the difference? ;)
--
Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never!
tIM...HOEk
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