[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:40:02PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   It borders on the trivial if you stick a little PIC or 8051-ish
> microcontroller in there.  Have the microcontroller implement a simple
> serial protocol, like send it a byte with the high bit set to turn on
> the LED identified by the lower seven bits, or send it a byte with the
> high bit cleared to turn it off.

I still want a knight-rider-type "bouncing" LED display of some sort on
my machine(s). 8-)

Bill

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Bill Bradford     
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Austin, TX