Re: virtual consoles
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 09:55:30AM -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>
> Absolutely! It's a very ugly wart right now that the Mach console
> driver is used to interpret keyboard codes and do terminal emulation.
> All that should be in a user-level process; it should be a separate
> backend from the `devio' backend that term already has.
Agreed. I hope the people working on it will take a look at the frame buffer
device from GGI. I hope the GGI project will get interested in the Hurd, and
the Berlin consortium, too. Life should be much easier for them on the Hurd
than on Linux.
Marcus
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The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders
Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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