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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix on a 386SX laptop
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.224449.25993@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 17 Jan 91 22:44:49 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.004009.29924@nancy.uucp>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Followup-To: comp.os.minix
Organization: North Coast Computer Resources (ncoast)
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As quoted from <1991Jan15.004009.29924@nancy.uucp> by dave@nancy.uucp (Dave Harris):
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| hard drives?... Which drives?  I have heard rumblings about The Bellcore window
| manager MGR being ported to MINIX.. Can anyone elaborate on it.  I understand
| that it uses STREAMS with are SYS5.  I do not think anyone would have hacked
| MINIX for STREAMS, but what about TCP/IP and sockets?
+---------------

MGR uses ptys and some form of multiplexed input checking (read: poll() or
select()).  It does not use *any* other advanced features; communication
between MGR and clients is via escape sequences on the pty.  (I've been
whacking it into portability to SCO UNIX for a month; I'm fairly familiar with
its gizzards by now.)

++Brandon
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