Xenix panic (easy to do) Comment and an alternate method.

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX]

In article <1535 at dalcs.UUCP> forceten at dalcs.UUCP (ForceTen Enterprises) writes:
>
>	On the AT, a simpler means of instantly halting my machine
>without so much as a panic (power cycle to reboot)
>
>	$ cat > /dev/monochrome
>
>	I use an AT w 1 Meg memory, Paradise Systems Multidisplay Card.
>Has anyone encountered this on a system with a standard IBM colour adaptor?

My machine has an IBM monochrome board and a Paradise Systems Multidisplay
Card configured as color only (take too much current to run in my PC!).
Memory is 1152k and two serial + two parallel ports.  Default monitor
is monochrome.

	cat > /dev/monochrome
elicits a "can't create" message, even if superuser.

	cat > /dev/color

works as expected, accepting keyboard input until ^D, at which time
it all scrolls out on the color monitor.  In fact, I often redirect 
output to the color monitor, sort of a hardware version of windows
but with only one virtual terminal.

There are some strangenesses with the Paradise board if I try to run
Xenix with the displays in any other configuration that the one described.
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