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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Console Lock out
Date: 10 Jul 1996 20:11:30 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote:
> J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
> : hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) wrote:
^^^^^^^^
>
> : > Is this phenomenon still observed on 386BSD ?
>
> : Can you flip virtual consoles in 386BSD?
>
> You could with the patch-kit. I believe "sc" was introduced around
> 0.1-pk2.
...and Hellmuth's pcvt even predates syscons. ;-) Both were optional
by that time, and i seem to remember that FreeBSD 1.1 was the first
system where syscons replaced the old pccons as the _default_ driver.
Anyway, i think Hellmuth's question was merely related to The True
386BSD, which JMJr used to advocate for until its last days. I think
it never got a VT-aware console driver, rather, i'm too lazy to check
the 386BSD 1.0 CD-ROM right now. :)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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