iOpener

On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 04:43:42PM +0000, Hans Franke wrote: Well obviously, but just because the BogoMIPS numbers aren't proportional to the exact speed, doesn't mean they don't still mean *something* about the relationship. The K6 system I'm typing this on gets 600 BogoMIPs and is low-end by today's standards, and whether or not it's actually 2/15 the speed, the Winchip is a whole bunch slower. That's all I meant. But the cool thing about the machine is that it works at all, it's not supposed to be fast. Now that I've cut holes in the case and RFI shield so I can reassemble it with the disk hanging out the back (for easy swapping), the screen has developed a blue line up the middle, which is kind of a bummer. I hope I just pinched a cable or the HDD connector is flexing the mobo due to slight interference with the heat sink, it'll be a shame if the line is here to stay. The iOpener keyboard is kind of cute, the keys across the top have crazy decals but apparently they really are F1-F12 as usual. And the Tek 4105 style puck in the upper right corner seems to emulate a PS/2 mouse (the two rubber buttons on the left are the mouse buttons), so it works fine with Linux using the usual PS/2 driver. Even the autorepeat rate can be programmed as usual, it really seems like the whole machine is surprisingly PC-compatible, considering it's running custom software and the hardware could have been anything. Has anyone heard anything about how to program those two LEDs on the top of the screen (i.e., you've-got-mail and phone-line-in-use)? I'd love to use them for a NULJOB display... :-) John Wilson D Bit