Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 18:08:10 +0200 (CEST) From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death Message-ID: <m0yos5i-000020C@bert.kts.org> In-Reply-To: <199806241233.OAA14751@sos.freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Jun 24, 98 02:33:05 pm"
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Søren Schmidt wrote:
> Well, just tell us when you are ready then, but don't expect the world
> to stand still inbetween..
I really hope someone will be there to prevent you from removing pcvt in the
meantime, yes.
> > > Even better, do you have any areas in which you'd like some help?
> >
> > The best thing were a framework for handling lowlevel keyboard stuff, video
> > stuff, (for those who want it) mouse stuff and X11 stuff in which all sorts
> > of emulations and fancy things can live. The great unified console driver we
> > talk about since 386BSD. This would mean that all the nitty-gritty stuff would
> > be done only once and not duplicated in all drivers and one could really
> > concentrate on the emulation.
>
> Well, that might be arranged, but you need to adjust to that framework then.
Have you ever heard of c-o-o-p-e-r-a-t-i-o-n ? Thats a behaviour which is
fundamentally different to dictate.
Read Jordan's question again. Got it ?
And please stop putting more oil into the fire, ok ? Its enough already.
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe
A duck is like a bicycle because they both have two wheels except the duck
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