From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: RE: terminal animals Article-I.D.: ucbvax.500 Posted: Thu Dec 23 22:37:48 1982 Received: Fri Dec 24 07:35:33 1982 >From TIHOR@NYU Thu Dec 23 22:30:04 1982 Mail-From: ARPANET host SANDIA rcvd at 23-Dec-82 1758-PST Mail-From: ARPANET site MIT-MC rcvd at 23-Dec-82 1856-MST To: GJC@MIT-MC Cc: INFO-VAX@MIT-MC In-Reply-To: Message of 22-DEC-1982 01:36 from George J. Carrette Remailed-Date: 23 Dec 1982 2045-PST Remailed-From: the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow Remailed-To: Info-VAX@SRI-CSL: ; One of the things that was done to support the VAXstation was the appropriate VMS code for pseudo terminals, which is distributed as part of the VAXstation software. The VAXstation is clearly going to be a line of terminals representing DECs current direction in high resolution graphics terminals. Now that the terminal driver has been split into a class/port driver pair adding strange things is easier bum it takes an ACP like object to create new pseudodevices and with the restructuring of ACPs in VMS 4.0 (3B) it is not clear where the functionality will go. The VMS design goal of minimal load on the Terminal Driver to support unused features pushes fancier terminal support further into the system. Why don't you join the Terminal Support Working Group of the VAX SIG of DECUS and explain to them exactly how VMS is eight years behind what their customers should have available and how it can cleanly and efficiently be added. I dont know who the Chairman is yet as its existance was only proposed at this DECUS and I didn't get to the organizational meeting. I am waiting for the next Pageswapper to find out what sucker////// public spirited citizen volunteered to chair it. -------