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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: several questions
Message-ID: <1881@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Mar 90 11:32:34 GMT
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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(Machine: RS2030)

(1) Why does /usr/include/bsd43/sys/proc.h define a proc structure
    apparently completely unrelated to the real one?  Surely it should
    describe the actual proc structure regardless of whether I'm
    compiling in the sysv or bsd environments?

(2) When does MIPS intend to release an R4-based version of X  (i.e.
    one that's fast, supports the SHAPE extension, and has a twm that
    works with R4 clients)?

(3) Why do the ptys start at ttyq0?  (The ttyp? terminals exist, but
    don't seem to be used.)

(4) Is there a some way I can generate an efficient unaligned load
    from C?

(5) talk(1) doesn't seem to work between the RS2030 and Suns.  I
    assume this is because of a protocol difference.  What's the
    simplest way to get it working (preferably without changing the
    Suns)?

Thanks in advance,
-- Richard
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Richard Tobin,                       JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed             
AI Applications Institute,           ARPA:  R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
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