> On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 04:55:40PM -0800, Open Carefully -- Contents Under Pressure wrote:
> > Greg A. Woods sez:
> > /*
> >  * Most older suns already have a bank of LEDs, but yes a generic "hardware
> >  * status monitor driver" that could drive these or a parallel port either
> >  * from other driver hooks or user-land would be really cool.  Modern
> >  * computers don't have near enough blink'n lights!
> > 
> > Well agreed.  I had a design for an IPX-sized cube with LOTS of
> > blinkenlights on the front of the box.

Perhaps the reason that some have suggested the lights blink faster as the
load gets higher is that the current range is 1s -> 2s -> 3s -> 4s and
that people don't percieve phenomenon under 1Hz very well. Perhaps a 
suggestion would be to start the blink at a faster rate at load=0, like
10 blinks per second, and get slower as load goes up, 9 per second at load 2
etc... to 1 per second at a load of ten and above.

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