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
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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
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