-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 17:14, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> You really aren't a geek, are you? > > I forgot to mention another use for that machine: > I read the IR pulses from remote controls and figure out > the protocols they use. For that, I need microsecond > level timing resolution, which I can get with MSDOS,
Well, that's one good use for a simple single-process OS. > but I doubt that Linux can provide that. It needs Never know until you try... The RT variants should do the trick. OS/2 in text-only mode might also do it. > immediate and direct hardware access for that. > Still not geeky? A little. :0 > I'll be glad to provide some software to do that, along > with the circuit diagrams for the IR receiver, if you > like, off-list. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF1j5cS9HxQb37XmcRAqeVAJ9iZsNo3pCkFSFR+mR98PLZLayEfACeP4Xl KxnL83FUIhpw/hIcqH23HuM= =rXgP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
