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# mine says
PrtSc for some reason [and SysRq]
(I helped save b3ta! JJ, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:25, archived)
# mine says Print Scrn
but also SysRq at the bottom.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:26, archived)
# mine says both
'Print Screen' and 'SysRq'
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:27, archived)
# I pressed it but I haven't had any Sys
yet.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:28, archived)
# mine says
'print screen' and 'sysrq'. what the hell is sysrq?
(I helped save b3ta! zerolicious, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:26, archived)
# System Request
for back in the old days when people used to have butlers. It would ring a bell in the basement and a flunky would come and press F5 for you.
(I helped save b3ta! crouchingbadger, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:28, archived)
# haha
.
(I helped save b3ta! cwethan, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:29, archived)
# yeah...
...wot is SysRq

while we are at it, what the hell does Alt Gr do?
(I helped save b3ta! JJ, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:28, archived)
# He lost out...
...to George W Bush in the US elections
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:30, archived)
# SysRq=
There is a key labeled SysRq on keyboards for PCs that no longer has a standard use. The BIOS keyboard routines simply ignore it; therefore so do the DOS input routines as well as the keyboard routines in libraries supplied with high-level languages.

The key is not totally inactive, however. When it is pressed, nothing is stored in the keyboard buffer, but a BIOS function is called. The default handler of that function does nothing and simply returns. Programs can use SysRq simply by creating an interrupt handler to replace the default stub, but most programs have no need for that functionality. Software that has the potential to completely lock up the system, so that a BIOS interrupt is the only input that could be generated, use SysRq as a form of "panic button."

In Linux systems, provided the kernel has been compiled with the correct option, the key can be used to perform a variety of functions in an emergency, such as syncing disks, killing processes and powering off the computer.


EH???
(I helped save b3ta! JJ, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:37, archived)
# it's like how the dreamcast keyboard had all of these extra stuff
that nothing was written to understand (like pause/break, print screen, scroll lock, etc), but they were still there, cos it was cheaper and easier to just have pc keyboards with different adaptors on the ends.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:28, archived)
# the japanese DC keyboards were 'proper' sega keyboards...
...i got online with my DC a few weeks back, my god, what a crap browser. That 28.8kbs modem is a bit slow compared to ADSL
(I helped save b3ta! JJ, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:30, archived)
# Why does it say Ctrl?
why not Control?
It's big enough for it to fit :)
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Wed 2 Apr 2003, 23:58, archived)