Re: How to get more developers (was: Mailing List traffic and...)
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:59:16PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > All we need is a console driver which is fast and supports a sufficient
> > subset of the VT220 to get screen running; we can then avoid all the
> > complexity than Linux's console has to put up with.
>
> Well, not really. As our console driver would be in userspace, it can be fat
> and include fancy features like vt's, readline (?, but it is on the task
> list), etc.
Yes, that's what I meant---by "driver" I meant "hardware driver within
GNUMach", which the userspace code talks to. I wonder if screen could be
converted to run as a Hurd server (and if there would be any advantage to
doing so)...
--
Adam Sampson
azz@gnu.org
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