[ On Mon, January 18, 1999 at 18:24:53 (+0200), Jukka Marin wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: options "BLINK" in config file for kernel?
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:09:28PM +0100, Rik van Mierlo wrote:
> > options         BLINK           # blink the led on supported machines
> > 
> > ok, it does indeed blink, but what is the purpose? Accept for the fact that
> > now I can't tell by looking at the led whether the machine is down or not.
> 
> It displays the load average (the higher the load, the slower the blink).

Not very well.  I cannot easily discern even gross increments (i.e. by
whole numbers) from the blink rate on my SS1.  It would be much more
useful if it blinked with network traffic just like my NCD terminals do.

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