johnl@haddock.UUCP (01/21/84)
#N:haddock:13600002:000:1131 haddock!johnl Jan 20 01:33:00 1984 Lauren, in his note on uucp on PC/IX and Coherent, misunderstands what "single user" means. PC/IX involves a single user binary AT&T Unix license. AT&T does not consider uucp to be a "user" so it's OK to leave the async port enabled for login all the time for the benefit of uucp. Also, the PC-DOS based terminal emulator INTERACTIVE sells is not actually for a VT-100 but rather for an INtext II terminal. The INtext is an ANSI terminal sort of like a VT-100, but the interesting thing about it is that it knows a lot about the INed editor, so that when the editor is running, a lot of the editing takes places in the terminal. That means that the editor does not load down the system anywhere near as heavily as, say, the Rand editor (a cousin of INed), so the performance problems traditionally associated with such editors are avoided. The key assignments in the INtext emulator are the same as they are for the version of INed you get with PC/IX, which is handy for situations where sometimes you want to use PC/IX and other times you want to use your PC as a terminal to a Vax. John Levine, ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.ARPA