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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
