mo@seismo.UUCP (Mike O'Dell) (04/03/85)
Rob Pike solved the terminal driver problem very nicely - HE EXPUNGED THE DRIVER! With the Blit, all the user-interaction cruft goes in the Blit where you have a CPU and operating system dedicated to doing high-quality user interaction tasks. The Unix machine is releaved of this onerous chore and is left to do what it does best: compute! (No one can claim the VAX is well-optimized for character-based interrupts and context switches.) The only problem with this solution is its cost - but you get what you pay for. "tty.c - an evil necessity" -Mike O'Dell