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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Alexis Rosen wrote: > There's another better solution. It would take a little bit more work but > it would be infinitely more useful: Build an ISA card that looks like an > MDA adapter, but which sends output to a VT100. (A simple algorithm will > produce good results here even when the cursor jumps all over the place.) > You also need a gizmo (one exists alread) that makes serial input look like > PC keyboard scan codes. And lastly, you need to special-case a long-break > so that it causes the ISA card to reset the machine. We have been looking for something like this for a while; if no one else has such a product, we will make it ourselves. > it, as would the millions of poor souls who run Novell, SCO, etc.) I'd > buy fifty of them at $100 apiece, and at that price you'd probably see OK, we will consider this an order. ;-) -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015 http://www.uk.vbc.net VBCnet West +1 408 971 2682 fax +1 408 971 2684 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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