Re: Getty ports - dumb question

[Jim Worthington <jworthington@worldnet.att.net>]

Bill Roman wrote:
> 
> They're running on your virtual consoles.  Try holding down the left Alt
> key and pressing function keys.  Log in on each virtual console.  Pretty
> slick, eh?
> 
> I used this feature a lot when I had only 4 MB of RAM, as that's not
> enough to run X in (unless you like watching the disk light a lot).
> Now I usually just open all the xterms I need.
> 

Thanks to everynody that responded.  I wish I would have known about
this feature when I was trying to get X to run.  Now that I have X
running, multiple xterms do indeed do the job.

Jim