donn@sdchema.UUCP (Donn Seeley) (11/26/83)
I have noticed that one of the parts of 4BSD that gets a lot of flak from System V advocates is the tty driver. It certainly has interesting problems, and it is now more complicated than before with the addition of pseudo-tty's. I seem to remember that none other than Dennis Ritchie presented a paper at the Santa Monica Usenix describing a new way of handling tty communications, and much more. It's now approaching two years since I first heard about this and I still haven't seen it in any system that I've had contact with, to my knowledge. What happened to this proposal? Is it going to be in 4.3 BSD? System 6? Version 8? Was a 4.2 BSD version nixed by AT&T lawyers as was Mark Horton's terminfo package? Displaying my ignorance in public again, Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. RRCF ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn 32 52' 30"N 117 14' 25"W (619) 452-4016 sdcsvax!sdchema!donn@noscvax [PS Speaking of rumors, I bet some people are still wondering about that no-extra-license-required 4.2 port to the Motorola 68K that I discussed a few months ago. Well, our group didn't receive funding -- NIH has decided not to decide on our grant until at least March 1984 (that's 6 months!). We have in the meantime sought alternate sources of funding and possible vendor support, and both of these look like they may materialize soon. This delay has also caused management to look at alternatives to the original proposal, including using different CPUs like the NS16032 or the MicroVax. I will get around to a longer article on this in a week or two. I will include information I have received on SUN source licensing, and anyone else who has information they would like me to include (hey, a newsletter!) can send me mail at one of the above addresses. Thanks for being patient...]