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Subject: Multi-Window Terminal Emulator
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Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 14:26:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 14:26:28 1987
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[Note that this article is cross-posted between comp.sys.ibm.pc and
comp.unix, a moderated newsgroup.  Please be aware of this and make
sure that replies are going to Mr. Schmitz.  Followups that go to
comp.unix may be summarized by the moderator if there's a big response.
I'd encourage Mr. Schmitz to submit a summary of the replies he gets.
Also, I believe that such a thing exists internally to AT&T for their
PC 6300, using the same UNIX interface as the 5620 DMD terminal (layers),
but I may be mistaken.  -mod]

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?

-- Tom Schmitz

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