Acwruecmp.31 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!ordy Thu Jan 7 16:18:29 1982 VAX phys We have been using the V7 'phys' call to communicate with special graphics peripherals on our PDP-11s. Does anyone know if the phys call can, or will make it to the UCB VAX Unix system? In particular, can it be put into 4.1 BSD? It seems like there might be fundamental problems in implementing this feature. Any comments would be appreciated. Perhaps an alternate mechanism could be suggested to allow us to easily access Unibus registers from a user program. Greg Ordy ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.