This will mean some new kernel features will need to be implemented to support virtual terminals, at least enough to provide posix_openpt and ptsname functions, as well as porting a terminal emulator system itself and adding some font rendering & input functions to the desktop system.
The terminal emulator will probably be part of desktool which should provide basic diagnostic & demonstration capabilities for the desktop system. This support may be based on libtmt or a similar library. A more advanced terminal emulator may be developed later along with further work on GUI toolkits, better fonts etc.
Once a simple terminal emulator works on the new desktop & kernel it will start becoming much easier to demonstrate other multitasking & graphics capabilities, and to start moving my development workflow into the new system as well!
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