Polled. Its ok
> Result: just hook an el-cheapo dot-matrix printer to your box, load it
> with a few 1000 sheets of fanfold, and wait for that next devious crash to
> roll in. Obviously won't catch those crashes which won't generate any
> messages at all, but otherwise, fairly foolproof.
When I were a lad ;) you plugged printers into serial ports too. I've got
an Epson PX-4 laptop plugged into my development serial port running a
trivial CP/M terminal application and logging. Saves wasting trees,
gets the logs and I got two PX-4's for free from a junk box of them ;)
Alan