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Comment Re:That's the one?! (Score 1) 320

Yeah, but on the 1200XL and later computers, RESET actually triggered the CPU's RESET line. On the 400 and 800, it was just a regular NMI and would do absolutely nothing if the CPU had locked up due to a garbage op-code. Of course the RESET key on Atari and Apple (and CONTROL+RESTORE (right?) ON THE Commodore 64) just exit the program you're currently using and makes sure the screen is in a usable state (i.e. in text mode), not re-boot the computer. That was done by holding down the Apple logo keys when reseting on the Apple or a button on a special cartridge on the Atari and C64.

It annoyed me so that Linux didn't have something similar to Apple & Atari's RESET key that I wrote one of my own that got called by init anytime I pressed WIN+X. It set the screen to text mode via SVGAlib's "mode3" utility and sends "^[c" to stdout to reset the VT and did a number of other things that I don't remember. I also did something similar in MS-DOS called CLEAR.COM that also switched stdin/stdout/stderr back to cooked mode (i.e. ^C & ^Z & ^P work again) after I noticed that Lynx left them in raw mode when shelling to DOS when I got stuck in the UNIX "cat" utility because I couldn't ^Z out of it.

Comment Re:Compatibility (Score 1) 146

Won't work; you'll just get a "Cannot do binary reads from a device" error. After all, if ^Z (the EOF character in CP/M) is disabled, how will it know when it reaches EOF?
You'll have to convert it to HEX format and transfer it that way and then use DEBUG to convert it back. How you actually create a HEX file is beyond me, though.

Or just install from a CD image.

Comment Re:Yes, and maybe (Score 2) 225

No, you remember kaomoji; which are the textual (ASCII, originally) "faces" that Japanese created. Emoji are the graphical icons. As I understand it, kaomoji are always faces (right-side up ones, at that!) where as emoticons and emoji can be anything. Also "emoji" is not a abreviation of "emotional ji" ("ji"="character"), as some might think. It's a combination of "e" and "moji", not "emo" and "ji".

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