Re: newcons

In reply to: Graham Perrin : "newcons"
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From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:31:57 UTC

On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 at 21:54, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bugs 261909 and 261914 use the word 'newcons' which was vaguely familiar to me, but had no real meaning. Not properly documented:

Newcons was the nickname used for vt(4) during its development. PRs
etc. ought to use just "vt" (and the Wiki page ought to be renamed).

Because it does show up in mailing list archives and some PRs I have
no objection to including it in the glossary, but we should be clear
that it's an unofficial nickname.