It might be interesting to have a list of ways that the BIOS gets
accessed during startup. These are the ways that I know about; are there
others I've missed? I don't recall which keys work with what BIOS and
that might also be interesting information to have.
* Setup disk (IBM AT)
* Del key
* Cntl-Alt-Insert
* Cntl-Alt-S
* F1 key
* F2 key
* F10 key (Compaq)
On Oct 17 2004, 22:36, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, William Donzelli wrote:
>
> > My objection is that there are probably hundreds of forums that
> > are better suited for Linux talk. Why post here, when it will annoy
some
> > people?
> Not just that, also include the highly political nature of those
> discussions; they're all much more suited for comp.os.linux.advocacy
> or the various Windows/Linux/xBSD technical groups/lists.
>
> NOT HERE.
I agree, if you want my vote.
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disgust and left the mailing list for good.
Anyway, I heard him today on a BBC program about the 50th anniversary of
the transistor radio.
That's all.
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Subject: Re: Serial Port Expanders
Are you thinking of adapters with e.g. 4 extra com ports ? I have some 8-bit
EISA cards (4 ports) and a PCI card from LAVA with 2 ports.
Nico
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> I've got PC-MOS/386 and wonder if serial port expanders for a 386 or 486
can still be sourced. A hunt of the net opened a minefield of such devices -
hoping I can get some help from this list.
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Sent: Saturday, 16 October 2004 11:45 PM
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I may have a spare Digiboard PC/8, isa board. It is only configured for 4
ports though. I will check this weekend and see if I still have it.
Jay
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On Oct 17, 2004, at 12:32 PM, Kevin Handy wrote:
> Ron Hudson wrote:
>
>> simh running rsts
>>
>> print chr$(27);"[2J"
>>
> Try
>
> print chr$(27+128);"[2J"
>
> RSTS plays odd games with the escape character (prints it as
> a dollar sign most of the time), and setting the parity bit helps.
> There are various "open" modes, and terminal settings that
> will bypass this, but this is easier.
>
>> prints
>>
Ready
10 print chr$(27+128);"[2J"
run
NEW 12:25 PM 17-Oct-84
?[2J
Ready
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nope, that don't do it either. It's the same output on the terminal too.
What about +256? are they 8 bit chars? hmm no that would just be 27
again...
chr$ does a MODULO right?
Well, Kermit did the same thing as the two terminal programs.. Even
though they say they are vt100 compatible, they still spew garbage and
don't make the proper screen with vt50dpy... however vt50dpy
running on a serial port on the host system works fine.. I just want to
work at that terminal.
what's funny is the terminal emulators work fine with teco/vt. I
suppose vt50dpy makes more use
of the terminal control codes..
Well, Thanks for the suggestions so far. :^)
On Oct 17 2004, 16:45, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> Is it the one that goes from the distribution board to the RX50?
> I don't have that one, but why can't you just make one yourself?
> It's just a 34-conductor flat ribbon cable with female header sockets
> on both ends, isn't it?
Yes, it is. I was about to suggest the same thing. An ex-PC floppy
cable will do, if you use the connectors without the twist (cut the
excess off if you want to be neat).
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simh running rsts
print chr$(27);"[2J"
prints
$[2J
not clear the screen. VT100 sequence is ESC[2J as well as ansi
sequence! It does the same thing on the direct-serial-connected vt100
emulating HP terminal...
Gah!
