Subject: dt strangeness
To: NetBSD/mac68k Mailing List <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Ryan Ordway <rimsky@teleport.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/08/1998 14:33:48
	I Just noticed something odd about dt... 

sammael@brahms% who
sammael  ttye0    Nov  4 13:44
sammael  ttyp1    Nov  4 13:46  (dt:2)
sammael  ttyp2    Nov  4 13:46  (dt:3)
sammael  ttyp3    Nov  6 00:30  (dt:4)
sammael  ttyp4    Nov  6 23:46  (dt:5)

	I have 5 virtual desktops running currently, and dt:1 doesn't
showup. 

sammael@brahms% w
 2:19PM  up 4 days, 36 mins, 5 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.48, 0.60
USER    TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
sammael  e0 -                Wed01PM 4days dt
sammael  p1 dt:2             Wed01PM     2 -sh
sammael  p2 dt:3             Wed01PM    15 -sh
sammael  p3 dt:4             Fri12AM    10 w
sammael  p4 dt:5             Fri11PM     0 telnet teleport.com
sammael@brahms% finger
Login    Name                 Tty  Idle  Login Time   Office     Office Phone
sammael  Ryan Ordway           e0    4d     Wed 13:44 brahms
sammael  Ryan Ordway           p1     2     Wed 13:46 brahms
sammael  Ryan Ordway           p2    15     Wed 13:46 brahms
sammael  Ryan Ordway           p3     -     Fri 00:30 brahms
sammael  Ryan Ordway           p4     -     Fri 23:46 brahms

	Also, dt:1 is running on ttyp0, which doesn't show up as a login
on finger, or who, or w. I don't know who supports dt, or if it's even
being actively supported or developed...

	Which I guess brings me to the question, does anyone really use
dt? And if so, is there anyone who knows enough about it who can help
support it until the fabled new console system makes its way to the mac68k
port? (which I've not heard anything about in ages...)

	I wonder because I'm starting to use my machine as a server and
with the Q630's max of 36MB of RAM, having X running cuts WAY into that,
and slows things a bit. But, I miss the color... which neither the plain
console or dt have.

	Any ideas or clues on when we can expect some kind of improved
console system? Or, do we already have one and I've slept through it? ;-)

	Ryan
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