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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Console Lock out
Date: 11 Jul 96 06:50:06 GMT
Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH
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In <4s12pi$avo@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>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. :)

You are right, The 386BSD "reference" CDROM still has the state of the
art "reference" console driver implementation ....

If i could have had a look at the CD before buing it, the maximum price
i would have paid for it were

just my 0.02 $,
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis    HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH    Hamburg, Europe
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