ken@rochester.UUCP (The Heliopolist) (11/17/85)
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I realized the other day how often the terminal line is idle
while I type at 10 cps max or pause to read what is on the screen.
Has anyone considered a kind of software stat mux? For example,
I could be using my hypothetical multitasking micro as a terminal
while another task in the background did file transfer, like this:
me ----------\ /----- shell
|-----[serial link]-----|
ftpprog -----/ \----- ftpprog
(kermit, etc)
I would get priority so that I wouldn't notice any degradation
in service. I know there are mux drivers but has anyone done this
with user-level code, you know, pseudo-ttys, etc?
Please mail your comments unless you feel it is of general interest.
Ken
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