From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 6 00:55:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA02834 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 00:55:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA02729 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 00:53:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA17291; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:51:35 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA06477; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:51:34 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id JAA01343; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:43:15 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611060843.JAA01343@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: thinkpad 760ELD w/ 3com pcmcia 3c589 ins To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 09:43:15 +0100 (MET) Cc: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Tim Vanderhoek at "Nov 5, 96 11:31:41 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > I've never even known what it stands for, to be fair, though... ("SYStems > ReQuired"? "SYStems bReaQ"? "SYStem wReck"?) Btw., mine is labelled "S-Abf", in some generous attitude of someone who's been tranlating all of this stuff into German... The worst is however the "Control" key, somebody translated this into "Steuerung", and abbreviated it to "Strg", so that people now constantly refer to it as "Die String-Taste" ("The string key"). :-/ > Kernel debugger ... vi command mode -- what's the difference? ;) At least some of the syscons keymaps map it into a DDB request. Nothing of historical dimension happens in pcvt though, it simply sends out a NULL character. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)