> But the console is still screwed...no editor works on the console, so 
> I have to do anything in an X window to have it work, even joe.
>
> and that leads me to this question; if I enable wscons, will that help?
> what does it really do?  does it give me virtual consoles, so I have more
> than one available, without using X?

Whole WSCONS stuff including virtual console/multiple color is not
available on NetBSD/pmax.

Thoru Nishimura
Nara Institute of Science and Technology