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From: Rik Schneider <unix@deranged.schneider.org>
To: "tuhs@tuhs.org" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: virtual consoles / Alt-Fx
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 20:27:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr56Sw_uY+69z_tnhPYF66i9FAVg3cYLGrodfupbpVhuSh03g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfoJhC1KF2m1=AAVkNxxw0-ub3W+eowYcdFOu36tAuz=6A@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 8:30 AM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
>
> Ditto for the 386BSD BSD/386 line of  code. I think they were added in the
> patch-kit phase, not the original Jolitz code phase. FreeBSD 1.0 Beta had
> them in 1993 for sure, as did NetBSD of the time.
>
> I have a memory of them on 0.98pl13 on Linux as well, but that version
> sticks in my head as a proxy for anything between 0.96 (the first one I
> tried) and 0.99 (the last before 1.x Linux). This would be approximately
> 1992 or 1993.
>
> I've not done the deep-dive into the ancient code bases to see if I can
> suss out when they arrived.
>
>

Virtual consoles were added to Linux in Version 0.12.  They may have been
available in 386BSD and FreeBSD 1.0 but it looks like they were not
configured by default until FreeBSD 1.1.

 --
Rik

>

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-14  3:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-13 15:12 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-03-13 15:24 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2023-03-13 15:27   ` Clem Cole
2023-03-13 16:17     ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-13 15:41   ` Warner Losh
2023-03-13 15:48     ` KenUnix
2023-03-13 15:48     ` Clem Cole
2023-03-13 16:14     ` Dan Cross
2023-03-13 17:26       ` Miod Vallat
2023-03-13 20:35         ` Dan Cross
2023-03-14 16:42   ` Derek Fawcus via TUHS
2023-03-14 22:46     ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-03-15  4:26       ` Heinz Lycklama
2023-03-13 15:27 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-13 15:30 ` Warner Losh
2023-03-14  3:27   ` Rik Schneider [this message]
2023-03-13 15:33 ` Ron Natalie
2023-03-13 15:45   ` Heinz Lycklama
2023-03-13 17:04   ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-13 15:49 ` Brad Spencer
2023-03-17  8:14 ` Marc Donner
2023-03-14  3:33 Rudi Blom

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