[comp.sys.sgi] What? Hard coded keyboard speed.

juancho@dgp.toronto.edu (John Buchanan) (05/19/89)

	In my never ending to get a decent repeat rate on a personal Iris
I ran across these gems.

First

	'The keyboard serial I/O interface uses RS423 levels and
	 communicates asynchronously to the system at 600 baud.'

Second

	'When auto-repeat is enabled a pressed key will begin auto-
	 repeating after 0.65 seconds and repeat 28 times per second'

Is there a reason that these two variables are not variables but 
constants?  One cannot help but think that Murphy's first law of engineering
was applied too literally.

	'Variables don't, constants aren't'


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