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  1. Re: Really cool feature! (fwd)

    Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 1998-03-03T03:42:28Z

    See the kind of performance improvements *we* throw into our kernel?
    *rofl*
    
    Marc G. Fournier                                
    Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
    primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
    
    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:53:17 -0500 (EST)
    From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
    To: Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu>
    Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
    Subject: Re: Really cool feature!
    
    Scott Michel said:
    >
    > As of this morning's cvsup (at or about 9:00am, PST), the really
    > cool current feature is FreeBSD w/o keyboard. On bootstrap, everything
    > comes up as it should, except the keyboard no longer accepts anything.
    > 
    Excellent, it improves system throughput by ignoring the nasty keyboard
    interrupts :-).  This is a really good idea!!! :-)
    
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  2. Re: [HACKERS] Re: Really cool feature! (fwd)

    Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> — 1998-03-03T03:52:56Z

    > > As of this morning's cvsup (at or about 9:00am, PST), the really
    > > cool current feature is FreeBSD w/o keyboard. On bootstrap, everything
    > > comes up as it should, except the keyboard no longer accepts anything.
    > >
    > Excellent, it improves system throughput by ignoring the nasty keyboard
    > interrupts :-).  This is a really good idea!!! :-)
    
    An idea obvious stolen from some Linux development version. *sniff*
    
    
    
  3. Re: [HACKERS] Re: Really cool feature! (fwd)

    Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 1998-03-03T04:07:44Z

    On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
    
    > > > As of this morning's cvsup (at or about 9:00am, PST), the really
    > > > cool current feature is FreeBSD w/o keyboard. On bootstrap, everything
    > > > comes up as it should, except the keyboard no longer accepts anything.
    > > >
    > > Excellent, it improves system throughput by ignoring the nasty keyboard
    > > interrupts :-).  This is a really good idea!!! :-)
    > 
    > An idea obvious stolen from some Linux development version. *sniff*
    
    	Wait, I was kidding...it was actually a bug...*rofl*
    
    Marc G. Fournier                                
    Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
    primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org