Panic Button

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In article <42700013 at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> dpgerdes at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
->   Is it common knowledge that pressing the 'Pause' key on a Compaq or Dell
->386 running Uport 386 will cause a system panic?  One of our user's who
->is new to Unix found this one day.  He said he was starting to get his 
->confidence up with using Unix so he decided to try out a few things.  Next
->thing he knows the computer is yelling at him and panicing and trying to 
->write 938 pages.  He assumed his printer was broken.


The console driver in the 3.0 version of 386 MicroPort doesn't know about the 
scan code value that the pause key generates. (A minor oversight) That was one
of the things that was corrected in the 3.0e1 version.

Ken Chapin.