waters@neon.Stanford.EDU (Jim Waters) (04/07/91)
Has anyone successfully used a terminal with Macintosh Minix? I have been able to get a login prompt and to type a username and have it echoed, but receive no password prompt. I am running Minix 1.5 as distributed from Prentice Hall, with fixes from this newsgroup for 68000 machines, the configuration dialog box, the ps command, and the MacPortable. I have set the line up in /etc/ttys as "2j2", and connected a Zenith Z29 running at 2400 baud with even parity. In general, I can send output to the line, but have never successfully received input from it. Ultimately, I am trying to attach a braille terminal so that a blind student can work on the Minix project for an operating systems course. But I thought I'd start out with a regular terminal and move to the braille terminal once the regular one works. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Waters waters@cs.stanford.edu
waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) (04/16/91)
waters@neon.Stanford.EDU (Jim Waters) wrote: > Ultimately, I am trying to attach a braille terminal so that a blind > student can work on the Minix project for an operating systems course. > But I thought I'd start out with a regular terminal and move to the > braille terminal once the regular one works. Hmm.. this sounds interesting. I got a request from the Dutch Institute for the Blind, about creating "stations at which the people can `read' news and such"... Could you please reply to me by e-mail regarding this? Thanks! Fred. -- MicroWalt Corporation, for MINIX Development waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org Tel (+31) 252 230 205, Hoefbladhof 27, 2215 DV VOORHOUT, The Netherlands "An Operating System is what the _USERS_ think of it- me"