On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Richard Rauch wrote:

> >core team of NetBSD/pc98 isn't even listed on the credits page at
> 
> As just another user...why should they be listed?  Until your post here, I
> wasn't even aware that there _was_ such an effort.  Now, I see that it's
> listed here: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/#not-yet-integrated
> 
	As far as I know the NetBSD/pc98 team take the NetBSD tree and
	then make their own changes to create a separate NetBSD/pc98.
	I'll check to see if there is any reason why we could not work
	closer together.

> >getting those neat virtual terminals going, "wscons", is it.  Well, with
> >NetBSD/pc98 it's right in the GENERIC kernel that's initially installed.
> 
> I gather that the idea supporting virtual terminals by default has been
> raised (port-i386, maybe?).  My understanding of the answer is: Not
> everyone uses a PC; many platforms don't (at that time) have wscons
> support, so they can't do virtual consoles.
> 
	The idea is to have NetBSD as consistent as possible across all
	ports. To this end people are working on porting wscons to more
	ports (help alwasy invited :)

> On the PC, at least, they seem to be fairly easy to set up, though getting
> a 50-line text console is something that I've never worked
> out.  Admittedly, though, I haven't really looked into it in a while,
> since I run X nearly all of the time.

	If anyone does have problems with setting it up, please send-pr :)

		David/absolute