From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:36:02 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] drawterm document? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3bf6cde0-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Please don't force me to read all the sources of it! but that's where all the fun is! the main part of the plan 9 kernel is the device driver switch and the device drivers, which provide resources. instead of providing hardware resources, the drawterm version uses the underlying operating system to make the calls. devip and the screen are good examples. if you're not familiar with the regular plan 9 kernel then you might start with that and then attack drawterm. =20 if you're already familiar with the kernel then drawterm shouldn't be much work. =20 russ