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From: haug@almira.uucp (Brian R Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: SVR4
Summary: streams tty on TOWER32/700
Keywords: Local SE, never
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.014643.12903@almira.uucp>
Date: 12 Dec 90 01:46:43 GMT
References: <1990Dec9.150131.36596@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <4172@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Reply-To: haug@almira.UUCP (Brian Haug)
Organization: Personal machine, Columbia, SC
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In article <4172@vela.acs.oakland.edu> bminnebo@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brian P. Minnebo) writes:
>In article <1990Dec9.150131.36596@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
>I asked my local SE a similar question, I wanted to know if the tower
>would ever have an Version of UNIX that had streams based tty drivers.
>He said he would check, came back a few days later and said that it
>would probably never happen.  However, he did mention the new line...

Strictly speaking this information is incorrect.  The TOWER32/700 OS Releases
use a streams based tty subsystem.  Your SE is probably correct for the
TOWER32/8xx, TOWER32/[46]xx systems.  I don't know whether the TOWER32/200 has
a streams based tty subsystem or not.

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