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From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Intro and Leaving Amiga On (was : Amiga Modems)
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Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 17:16:41 EDT
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In article <761@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
> [PopCLI and] blanking
>is done by creating a black, 1 bit plane screen in front of anything else
>that's running.  Any input event will remove this blanking.

I can't resist. The key words are "any input." So...

A Mac-freak friend was over, and we were looking at something on the
Amiga. Hadn't done an input for a while, so PopCLI blanked the screen.
I cussed, said "I told you not to do that!", hitting the desk the
Amiga was sitting on with the word "told." The screen comes back on.
Mac-freak friend's mouth drops open, and stays that way for many
minutes while I laugh at him. He then spends 5 minutes not figureing
out how I did it.

It's a simple thing. "Any input" includes mouse motion input. Hitting
the desk jiggles the mouse enough to make it cause input. Viola, the
screen comes back on.

For a touch of irony, this trick was shown to me by an Apple salesman
peddling the Lisa....

	<mike