Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!tony
From: tony@killer.UUCP (Tony Holden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Multi-Window Terminal Emulator
Message-ID: <2433@killer.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 87 13:52:14 GMT
References: <21875@lll-tis.arpa>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <21875@lll-tis.arpa>, wade@lll-ati.arpa (Michael E. Wade) says:
> 
> In article <2737@mcdchg.UUCP> usenet@mcdchg.UUCP (Usenet Admin) writes:
>>I'm dreaming of a multi-window terminal emulation system for a PC
>>connected via modem to a Unix system.  The user sitting at the PC would
>>be able to maintain a terminal session in each of the windows,
>>switching back and forth between them as desired.  Ideally, multiple
>>windows could be displayed simultaneously and the contents of a window
>>could be updated if output occurred in it even while input was being
>>typed to a different window.  The idea is for something with the feel
>>of Suntools.
>>
>>As I imagine it, such an emulation system would need to consist of a
>>program to run on the PC and a program to run under Unix, forking off
>>processes for each of the windows in the emulation.
>>
>>Does anybody know of anything resembling this?  Any comments on either
>>my dream or my idea of how it might work?
>>
> This certainly sounds like UW which runs between an Atari ST or a Mac, and a
> unix host.

Actually there is such a system for PC's like Michael wanted.  

Structured Solutions
4031 W Plano Pkwy
STE. 205
Plano, Tx. 75075
214-985-9901

It is a program that runs on the Unix boxso that any terminal can have up to 10
windows.  The windows are akin to SCO screens on the console, complete new 
screens for every window.

But they have they own terminal program for the PC that will let you have 
overlapping windows.

I just happened to go and see them yesterday.  It sure runs a lot faster than 
SCO Multview, anyone want to buy a copy of Multiview?

Tony Holden
ihnp4!killer!tony