22 Jan
1999
22 Jan
'99
4:04 p.m.
Zane Healy writes;
Ooh! There's a challenge. To keep this on the classiccmp topic list... how
would it be best to attach one? Serial, obviously, but what OS? I could
cobble some MACRO together in a few hours to drive a serial LCD on demand
However, in looking at the URL's that have been
flying about I notice that
they've apparently got the Matrix Orbital modules with the Keypads working.
Now that's what I really want. I'd love to be able to punch a couple
buttons on the front panel of my computer and get it to reboot, halt, or
play my favorite MP3's!
lcdproc 0.4pre1 (and up) has a joystick driver for buttons not attached
to the LCD module. I have been frantically looking for my Gravis joypad
to no avail. :-(
Besides I prefer the looks of the VFD's to the
LCD's.
The VFD's are way cool and twice as expensive as the expensive LCD's. I
want one too, but not at $150+.
P.S. Any
interest in LCD code for the 6502?
No, but I'd love to see it for the PDP-11 :^) from RT-11, but I never did much more than FORTRAN on
RSX.
I wouldn't guarantee most lcdproc clients would work on RT, but it might
be possible to port it to RSTS in toto. Are there any RSTS-internals
guru's out there? The default lcdproc clients give current time, uptime,
CPU usage, load (graphically) and memory stats. I'm porting the clients
to Solaris and find that I need to know the total memory, the swap size,
the swap in use, the physical mem in use, percentage of CPU in user mode,
system (kernel) mode, free and "nice"'ed, uptime and current wall time.
How much of this is accessible from RSTS? Most of it is irrelevant from
RT, ISTR.
-ethan