26 Feb
2023
26 Feb
'23
5:32 p.m.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 9:23 AM Leah Neukirchen <leah(a)vuxu.org> wrote:
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> writes:
screen(1) was my go to back in the days of limited resources. Especially
screen -r so you could detach, come back the next day and have all your
setup right there.
Wasn't that fancy but oh so useful. I'm with Ted in that we just wanted
a bunch of terminal windows.
Curiously, I learned about screen only way later, when I used remote
systems. But I made getty spawn on 12 ttys, so that worked as well to
multitask.
That's a trick that dates back to the 80s. Different Unixes did that. I
first saw it on the DEC Rainbow running an enhanced Venix (V7) in like 1987
where you had 4 consoles, but no job control.... SCO System V did it in the
late 80s too. I think the pre system V Xenix did too.
Warner
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 04:50:34PM +0100, Leah
Neukirchen wrote:
> Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> writes:
>
> > - was there any discussion of alternatives to X?
> >>
> >
> > Discussions yes. But not much more than talk.
> >
> > There were vgalib apps that ran graphics on the console, but I never
used
them.
Back then I didn't have enough disk space to install X11 and TeX at
the same time, so I mostly worked on the 80x25 console Leah Neukirchen <leah(a)vuxu.org>
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