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From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Minix on a ST, GUI for MINIX?
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Date: 21 Mar 91 22:26:18 GMT
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In article <2384@tuvie.UUCP> hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) writes:
>david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes:
>>I think that MGR sort-of wants a BSD environment.

>> How hard would it be to BSD-ize Minix (I don't have
>>it yet, just the demo).
>
>Rather hard, I think. But for MGR all you need is a way to send
>commands from the client to the server and back reliably. This
>could be streams (SysV), sockets (BSD), fifos (many) or messages
>(Minix).

Actually, MGR doesn't use sockets at all, it just needs pseudo-ttys
for the BSD version. Client-server interaction is via escape-sequences
sent using normal I/O. This also could be done with Streams in SysV.
How do Minix virtual terminals work?
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  -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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