Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2001 19:03:56 -0500 (CDT) | From | Josh Myer <> | 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) -- /jbm, but you can call me Josh. Really, you can. "When lasers are outlawed, only outlaws will have lasers" -- from http://www.altair.org/CO2laser.htm
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