[Ma-linux] perplexing hardware problem

[Jay Hart]

You... Lost me on this one.

I'm now going to sleep.

Jay

> There is a UNIX lesson with ASCII 0x07 to standard out because it shows
> that by the time of C language the speaker on the PC mother board was a
> simulator of earlier hardware, the dedicated terminal.  The modern
> computer maker is a subset of what was formerly known as the instrument
> maker, which kind of manufactery is much bigger in other parts of the
> country.  ASCII 0x07 is decidedly a usable feature because it can beep
> at invalid typed input or any writes to standard out 2 (output stream
> for error - when a program ran no need to look at logs, if there was no
> beep the program ran without writing to standard error).  The program
> need be no more than the following pseudocode
> #include <stdlib.h>
> int main() { if (ERROR) {<< 0x07;} }
> When X acts as display and input terminal new constraints are involved.
> It might be humorous to consider but with sufficiently stringent
> requirements for security, a real hand tightened lock down, writes to
> the terminal may be constrained, only writes to the files system
> allowed.  If somebody ever figures out how to get smoke signals out of
> spiking CPU temp or system board beeps you'll be grinning wide trying to
> explain why you have more leaks than a molehill.
>
>
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