Subject: Re: Virtual TTYs in NetBSD 1.0
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: T. William Wells <bill@twwells.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/13/1995 03:05:03
In article <199502130145.UAA28780@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
: If you reconfigure your kernel with a `vt0' rather than a `pc0',
: you'll have virtual terminals.  However, I'm unconvinced that this
: is really an important feature.  window(1) even lets me do tiled or
: partially overlapping windows, and I don't have to bloat the kernel
: to do it.

I won't use a system that does not have virtual consoles, or
something with equivalent capacities. Neither screen(1) nor
window(1) comes close.