Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: job control
Message-ID: <1989Oct10.174322.7386@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3492@ast.cs.vu.nl> <3498@solo10.cs.vu.nl> <3539@ast.cs.vu.nl> <3554@solo2.cs.vu.nl> <3592@ast.cs.vu.nl> <3630@solo5.cs.vu.nl> <3631@ast.cs.vu.nl> <14987@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 89 17:43:22 GMT

In article <14987@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tuna@athena.mit.edu (Kirk 'UhOh' Johnson) writes:
>% Personally, I think a far better and more elgant solution would be
>% virtual screens...
>this is the solution used in the version (2.1) of IBM's AIX i worked
>with (on a PC/RT model 125). the thing i didn't like about their
>implementation was that there was no easy way to tell how many of
>these "virtual terminals" one had running, nor what they were actually
>running.

These are details of implementation rather than flaws of concept.  Not
that the details don't matter to the users, mind you -- those are
significant defects -- but they are the sort of things that a good
implementor could fix in half an hour.
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A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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