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If you wanted morse code for entire messages, that would require a much larger storage ROM just to hold them. Instead of a two-byte error code holding the entir
by jbri 13y ago
If you wanted morse code for entire messages, that would require a much larger storage ROM just to hold them. Instead of a two-byte error code holding the entire failure indication, those same two bytes now only hold maybe a word in the error message at most. And when you're troubleshooting an error, now you have to sit through the entirety of the word "Missing " after trying a fix before you can tell whether it's the same error or something different this time.
Besides, you didn't need the internet to look up the error codes when you typically had the dead-tree edition of the same information.
- VLM 13y agoTrue, but you could compromise and instead of having a randomly selected pattern of seemingly random beep patterns for every motherboard bios ever made to indicate video bios missing, you could just have an industry standard to send morse code "v". It would require similar to less code, definitely less docs, and somewhat less training. I don't text but my phone had a "ringtone" to announce SMS messages that simply beeped out "sms". I agree that it could have beeped out "GSM 03.41 Short Message Service Cell Broadcast" but "sms" did just as well, much faster.