Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!lll-tis!lll-ati.arpa!wade From: wade@lll-ati.arpa (Michael E. Wade) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Multi-Window Terminal Emulator Message-ID: <21875@lll-tis.arpa> Date: 10 Dec 87 20:50:52 GMT References: <2737@mcdchg.UUCP> Sender: nobody@lll-tis.arpa Reply-To: wade@lll-ati.arpa (Michael E. Wade) Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA Lines: 25 Keywords: UW 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. -MEW Michael E. Wade Control Data Corporation ARPA: wade@lll-tis.arpa UUCP: {ames,ihnp4,lll-crg,lll-lcc,mordor}!lll-tis!wade