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From: jfh@killer.UUCP (John Haugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: New Cheap Unix Boxes
Message-ID: <858@killer.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-May-87 11:26:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.858
Posted: Wed May  6 11:26:40 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 11:45:27 EDT
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Organization: The Unix(tm) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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Summary: It could be worse


The vendors could make it worse.  It is possible to compile a kernel that
will not let more than 2 TTYs be open at a time.  Can you imagine logging
in and working with a raw serial device?  And since isatty() would return
false, alot of stuff wouldn't even work ...

- John.