Re: Toggling NumLock

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From: Jochen "Joscho" Schoof
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 11:18

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From article <BvEx5v.Atx@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, by ceharris@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Carl Harris):
> While simply turning off the NumLock bit in the BIOS' keyboard status
> variable requires only 16 bytes or so, turning off the appropriate 
> indicator lights on the keyboard iff the machine is an AT-class box takes
> several additional instructions.  Hence, NUMOFF.COM is about 40 bytes long.
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Sorry, Carl, but that's simply wrong! My 12-or-some-more-bytes routine
toggles the bit as well as the LED. Hope I won't forget to take it with
me on monday... (BTW: I owe a 386-machine which seems AT-class to me).

- Jochen

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From: schoof@dec8.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Jochen "Joscho" Schoof)
Subject: Re: Toggling NumLock
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