From: Matt Birkholz <puck@birchwood-abbey.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 00:56:07 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: smp: share: uxctty.o
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smp: share: uxctty.o
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diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 8845e8943..935db9c81 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -662,6 +662,14 @@ command line.  The remaining 12 belong to the 7 microcode modules and
   00000004 b permit_ctty_control
   00000004 C scheme_in_foreground
 
+	OK.  There is just the one console, shared by all processors.
+	Presumably Scheme will allow only one thread to pown the
+	console, its interrupt characters and handlers, the process's
+	job control state and screen state (aka tty-command-clear),
+	etc. -- everything exposed here.  Perhaps multiple
+	tty-command-beeps from feepy but not fastidious programs in
+	simultaneous threads can cause a ruckus, but otherwise... OK.
+
   uxenv.o:
   00000010 b current_dir_path
   0000000c b current_dir_path_size