Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] writeup

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Brad Midgley wrote:

> James,
> 
> Your emailer is linewrapping your patches. That's a good way to piss off
> maintainers.

This was a patch soemone posted that I grabed. That means the patch was
not properly created. I will have to go threw it :(

> I'd like to do a writeup with diagrams for the new console system like I
> did before, including the terminology we all agree on. (Head, console,
> tty, etc.) Have we all agreed on what we call things? For example, is a
> crt an example of a head or is a head the collection of multiple displays
> and input devices used by a single person?

Hey we are going to have to get this straight. Dominik posted some terms
to get straight in a earlier post. Its in the archives.

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