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John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> writes: > Too bad the keyboard and mouse cables never have those little screws > like the monitor has that prevents fallout. Of course, the real > idiocy here is that plugging the mouse back in didn't make it start > working again. I'd guess that's probably a hardward idiocy, though it > is probably exacerbated by some matching software idiocy. This is a design flaw of the PC Architecture. Other architectures have similar idiocies. For example, on the Sun/Sparc architecture, if you unplug and then re-plug the keyboard into the CPU, the system will halt into the boot prom monitor, and you have to type "ok<return>" to get the system to continue running. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL N1NWH warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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