Re: VConsoles.

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.hb.north.de>]

Thomas Wouters writes:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am wondering about Virtual Consoles.... I heard about ppl using them, 
> and saw the C source at Sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk (couldn't get in a.a.u.e) 
> but i lack the HD space to install C compilers at home, and the expertise 
> to crosscompile on the sparcservers at work....
> 
> Has anyone found any definite disadvantages/incompatibilities about 
> Vconsoles ? I have a 2.5 mech ST (Tos 1.0, OOOLLDD) with a mono screen 

works fine on mono (thats what i have myself, atleast on the atari :)
though you might want to add some RAM depending on what you want to do...

 i haven't tried it on tos 1.0 but i don't expect problems either.

> and a (Aye, also OOLLDD and Barely Working) Megafile 30.

 but do install minix.xfs, tos 1.0's ms^H^Hgem-dog filesystem was even
more slow (and buggy) than it already is now.

>  Does anyone have 
> a set of binaries, for distribution (or just for me, i don't care:)

 hmm look at KGMD archives... (knarf?)  or mail again if you want mine.
> 
> Thanx,
> Tom.
 have fun...
	Juergen