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@ 2000-05-10 14:24 Ish
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From: Ish @ 2000-05-10 14:24 UTC (permalink / raw)


I am looking at having a cpu-server and terminal on the
same PC. I downloaded the info from ftp.ecf.toronto.edu
(by Vadim). His blurb is given below.

I would like help (or pointers) with the last paragraph --
modification of /rc/bin/cpurc for setting up VGA and mouse.

- ishwar
-----
->The following changes effectively separate the CPU server
->functionality and terminal functionality, so the console
->of a CPU server can be used as a "normal" terminal.
->
->Effectively, it allows to run a full-blown Plan9 system on
->a stand-alone machine.
->
->The kernel modifications provide interface to the new device
->#c/termowner, which is the same as hostowner but affects only
->devices associated with the terminal interface (keyboard, screen,
->floppy).  Only hostowner can write to termowner, and writing
->to hostowner changes termowner as well.
->
->There's also a new revision of init which asks the user name
->and performs authentication; for the hostowner both #c/key
->and the auth. server are attempted (so if auth. server is dead
->you still can log into the machine as an owner).
->
->To log out of 81/2 you've got to kill it.  You know where to
->complain.
->
->Also, to use that functionality you may want to modify /rc/bin/cpurc
->to set up VGA and mouse before doing other things (before, to
->allow for diagnostics to stay on the screen).
----




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