ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith) (03/13/90)
In article <13647@nigel.udel.EDU>, SYJXN%NASAGISS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jim Newell) writes: > I am wondering if someone could give me some info/hints on how to modify > the tty driver to include a windowing/split screen facility... -- I've also seen people suggesting that virtual terminals be put in the kernel (apparently it's been done in the atari gkernel). Please, please, please, don't make decisions like this in the kernel. I think the "right" way to do this is to put pseudo-tty's in the kernel. It then becomes an easy exercise for the reader to write user level virtual terminals, or windowing split screens, or for that matter spiffy nice graphics interfaces like MGR. I think the "spirit" of Unix is to provide the necessary tools in the kernel; the actual decisions (what kind of multiple terminal interface to provide) should be left to the user. -- Eric R. Smith email: Dept. of Mathematics ERSMITH@uwovax.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario ERSMITH@uwovax.bitnet London, Ont. Canada N6A 5B7 ph: (519) 661-3638