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From: waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix-ST keyboard / mouse / clock
Message-ID: <9105201094@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 20 May 91 14:43:10 GMT
References: <9105072564@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org>
Organization: MicroWalt Corporation, for MINIX Software Development
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bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org (Bert Laverman) wrote:
> In article <klamer.673169352@mi.eltn.utwente.nl>, klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) wrote:
>> The atari ST hardware supplies a keyboard proccessor for the user. This
>> keyboard proccessor has the following output:
>> 1) key presses
>> 2) mouse events 
>> 3) clock output.
>> 4) joystick output
> 
>> [ some lines deleted ]
>> Comments, anyone???
> The PCers use a program called readclock, which reads their hardware
> RTC, and prints the result in MMDDYYHHMMSS format (or "-q" if the time
> is found to be zero) to stdout. Maybe something comparable is possible.
> 
> Hardware level: ikbd interrupt driver
> Driver level: /dev/kbd, /dev/mouse, /dev/joystick and /dev/rtc.
> 
> Looks feasable to me.

hell- you even implemented it :-)

Fred.
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