----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kukat" <port-vax@vaxpower.de>
To: "Rink Springer" <rink@springer.cx>
Cc: "Michael Kukat" <port-vax@vaxpower.de>; "Chuck McManis"
<cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>; "NetBSD Bob" <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>;
<port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: Anyone know if NetBSD can key a radio transmitter

Hi!
> Hi !
>
> [snip]
>
> Was it one of those Hitachi somewhat controlled 2x16 chars displays? I
have a
> box full of them here and want to put one into my fileserver due to i had
to
> discard the floppy for some space for the raid controller :-) BTW: I have
> 3 Competition Pro's lying around here, and several other Joysticks for the
> C64 :-)
Well, there is only about one widely-used standard for them... visit
http://www.beyondlogic.org/parlcd/parlcd.htm if you want to know more.

Care to send some displays and joysticks to the Netherlands? I'd be
grateful! :)
>
> > Anyhow, while reading this, I was wondering: how do I directly write the
> > pins using NetBSD *and* FreeBSD? I don't care about Linux, I never liked
> > that.  FreeBSD and NetBSD for me!
>
> [snip]
>
> ppi(4) is a very cute API to control the parallel port directly under
FreeBSD.
> If this can go to NetBSD/vax is another question, there i don't know the
> specs of the parallel ports, which only seems to be present on some
VAXstations.
> I not even can tell about the kernel knowing about it...
Thanks, I'll give that a try!
>
> ...Michael
--Rink
>
> --
> void windows() { while(status == SYS_RUNNING) { sleep(rand());
bluescreen(); }}
>