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- From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
- Subject: Re: Can you access a virtual console directly?
- Message-ID: <ellis.716559683@nova>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
- References: <1992Sep14.164729.28907@mits.mdata.fi> <1992Sep14.220800.12868@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:21:23 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
-
- >kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) writes:
- >>It feels a bit dumb to use termcap-codes to handle the local output, if
- >>you know you'll be using this terminal from the virtual consoles only.
-
- >How do you know it will be used on virtual consoles only? How do you
- >know what kind of virtual console it is? Is it VGA, CGA, XGA, Hercules,
-
- [STUFF DELETED]
-
- >[ Does anybody else get tired of MS-DOS programmers whose first (and
- >often enough only) thought is: ``How do I write directly to video
- >memory?'' Perhaps we'll see requests for adding TSR support into Linux
- >next. Urgh. ]
-
- >--
- >Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
-
- Maybe someone needs to explain to them that they can do more than one thing
- at a time under UNIX, therefore they do not have to be concerned that each
- task in the sequence be as fast as possible. What makes it even more
- amazing is all of the DOS users who buy the latest fastest hardware to run
- single-tasking, single-threaded apps. As someone was fond of putting in his
- sig a couple of years ago, "DOS, just say NO."
-
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- Humanities & Social Science, GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst. / / / / / /
- Flint, MI 48504 ellis@nova.gmi.edu /________/ / / / /
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