Email list hosting service & mailing list manager

Re: A very first-draft proposal for character-cell terminals Lassi Kortela (05 Aug 2019 16:17 UTC)
(missing)
(missing)
Re: A very first-draft proposal for character-cell terminals Amirouche Boubekki (05 Oct 2019 11:10 UTC)
Re: A very first-draft proposal for character-cell terminals Arthur A. Gleckler (05 Oct 2019 18:56 UTC)
Re: A very first-draft proposal for character-cell terminals Amirouche Boubekki (06 Oct 2019 07:08 UTC)

Re: A very first-draft proposal for character-cell terminals Amirouche Boubekki 06 Oct 2019 07:07 UTC

Le sam. 5 oct. 2019 à 20:56, Arthur A. Gleckler <xxxxxx@speechcode.com> a écrit :
>
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 4:10 AM Amirouche Boubekki <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> In what context the terminal object is not a singleton for a given program?
>
>
> In pre-popular-Internet days, this could have been used to support a bulletin board system, i.e. with one terminal per dial-in user.

I understand.

Another comment:

>
> (event-poll! event timeout)
>
> Waits for the next event to become available or until timeout jiffies have passed. The resulting event is written into the first few elements of the vector event. If the value of timeout is 0 and no event is available, event-poll! returns immediately.
>

Does event-poll! procedure need a handle over the terminal?