From: drew@lethe.uucp (Drew Sullivan) Subject: Re: NEW: The Linux Device List Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 04:41:13 GMT
In article <1sc5rbINNgb5@hydra.helsinki.fi> wirzeniu@cs.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>nigel@gamble.uucp (Nigel Gamble) writes:
>>Who actually uses more than 9 virtual consoles?
>I've done that! :-)
>Oh, all right then, that was only 9 VCs actually used. Darn.
>>Can anyone actually keep track of 10 or more different tasks when
>>only one of them can be seen at a time?
>Yes, it is actually pretty simple, since I grouped things according to
>the keyboard's function keys, more or less.
Yup, I too use all 12 consoles on my SCO unix system and constantly run out.
I have set it up that I don't actually login to any console, but that init
starts up a shell by userid.
1: root
2: uucp
3: news
4: a real login
5-8: The current things I am working on.
9: umon (a process monitor)
10: vpix (dos under unix, it takes too long to start otherwise)
11: elm (my mail is always ready to be viewed, with 400+ message in the
inbox it take a few seconds to load)
12: trn 3.0beta42 (I am one of the beta testers, it is looking good)
Note, 5-8 is where the real work gets done and if I am working on 4 or
more things I am constanly running out of consoles. Makes, testing,
editing multiple sources will go though all 4 consoles
very quickly. I don't muck with the others since I am connected to 47
uucp sites with full news feeds to 4 of them. It nice when I can
just flip to the correct console and work.
By the way, this doesn't count the 4-5 xterms running under X, I have running
on the linux system sitting next to the SCO system.
-- -- Drew Sullivan, <drew@lethe.hades.gts.org> -- Toronto, Ontario, Canada