Re: [alliance-iosk] LM ?

[vhandel@chem.vu.nl (Ramon van Handel)]

>> I'm not too pleased with my printer, but I'm glad I can be of service as LM
>> tester ;)
>
>It's a 9-pin dot matrix? If so, it's good for printing listing and nothing
>else, I guess. As testbed :).

I hardly ever use it, I usually print on the laser printer we have here at
school.

>> On modern systems, there are two dumps you can make:
>>
>>  - PCI dump
>
>not so useful, at least from IOSK point of view....
>
>>  - ISA-PnP dump
>
>even this one. Something is useful, but for LPT/serial/keyboard I want
>something else. I'll look around.

Perhaps we should think of a general (cross-platform) system information
system for use in alliance.  Something like this:

- we should think of a way that every device has a unique ID
- for each ID, there should be a structure that describes it
- on IOSK device could return the structure for any device ID

What do you think ?  Any ideas ?

Ramon

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Ramon van Handel   <vhandel@chem.vu.nl>
Chemistry Student, OS Programmer and all-round Weirdo
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So what? Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
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