[atamyrat]

The closest environment I got to work with Matrix-like UI but real experience was:

There is board I'm developing on with serial port, and kernel debug prints so much garbage it literally fills the entire screen in less than couple of seconds. It was because of faulty/broken hardware and there is busy loop that keeps retrying to access the device.

I could enter shell commands but I/O lines get mixed in between the verbose kernel debug lines. After some time my eyes synced to the screen scroll rate and I could follow the output from bottom to top to read it (repeatedly run command until I could catch the output correctly).

For the moment, I saw "blonde" in fast scrolling random code :) Anyone else had to work like this?

[hideo]

Embedded hackers of the world unite?

Everytime u-boot barfed on me or I messed up the serial port I ended up having to scan through screenfulls of ASCII junk scrolling by at full speed to get my commands and results out.

The closest I ever got to -real- blonde/brunette effects was when I was debugging the output from a H264 streamer. I could figure out video resolution and slicing properties from the tcpdump trace scrolling by :)

[samstave]

Have you ever tried to config a router that has debug to console turned on?

Makes me want to throttle whomever made this with no option to pause output.