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- From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- Subject: Re: Domain X
- Date: Wed, 25 May 94 15:54:32 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <m0q63pG-0000aKC@sdf.lonestar.org>; from "Evan K. Langlois" at May 24, 94 04:15:00 pm
-
- > I tried a normal reply, but this Unix system is running on a i386. I kept
- > getting a stupid core dump!
-
- Yeah, that's life... ;-)
-
- > Yeah, I agree. I guess things would be easiest, and adequate, if we
- > forget changing MiNT domain and just protect DOM_X.
-
- That's probably what I was thinking about :-)
-
- > GEM only runs on the local console. If your going to give a user access to
- > run GEM, you have to let him sit at your computer! That is the least
- > protected you can get as he could hold CNTRL-ALT-SHIFT to boot from
- > floppy. Load a hard disk driver from floppy, and then modify your MINT.CNF
- > file since it resides on a FAT partition which can be accessed without MiNT.
-
- Well, that's not really an issue, but I may perhaps soon come into such a
- situation where I'd like other people to have access to my machine, but don't
- want them to be able to kill/modify any vital parts. Anybody has it's pockets
- full of backups of the last hundred DOS versions ;-) but none of them uses
- an ST and has got a disk with an AHDI or something like this... :-)
-
- But let me repeat: That's not really an issue.
-
- > There is another alternative than killing the program. Point the trap
- > into a GEM emulator that makes X Windows calls! Run GEM programs over a
- > network! Imagine connecting an X terminal to a TT and having the X terminal
- > run Pagestream! Impossible? No .. but I don't think its likely to happen
- > anytime soon!!!
-
- I'd much more prefer to wait for a "real" X port... :-)
-
- ciao,
- TeSche
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