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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 19:03:56 -0500 (CDT)
From: Josh Myer <jbm@joshisanerd.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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Subject: Re: [patch] nonblinking VGA block cursor
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> Ask the original poster if he's willing to take the risk of going with an xor 
> cursor.  We are talking text mode, right?  No way to get rid of that blinking 
> text cursor, ever.  Tell me, do you like having the colon blink on your alarm 
> clock too?  Personally, I opened the thing up and put a piece of tape over it.
> 

Aha! A software weenie! A real hardware hacker would have snipped and
soldered it to VCC to get a constant (or add a switch for solid/blink =).


In any case, this strikes me as a matter of policy. I don't care one way
or the other, but if people want a solid cursor, it's not something that 
we can really deny them that (unless it's a binary-only driver for the
cursor, of course).

Anyway, this is a silly discusson in general, i figured i would throw in
my $0.02 (strong US cents!)

> IBM had lots of ideas about how computers should work.  Remember the keyboard 
> keys that when CLACK CLACK CLACK.  Thank god they turned out to be too 
> expensive to clone - nobody misses them now.
> 

  *CLACK CLACK CLACK* 
(posted with a Model M)
--
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