windows on normal terminals
Tanner Andrews
tanner at ki4pv.UUCP
Wed Jun 18 00:03:34 AEST 1986
) bcsaic!michaelm writes that, while he wouldn't want 8 kbds, he
) might be interested in one kbds and 8 screens with a way to switch
) the kbd between screens. suggests using numbered function keys.
It might be of some interest to the net that SCO xenix has arranged
to use the IBM-AT or IBM-AT-alike screen and ALT-<function key> to
allow up to 10 logical terminals on the console screen. You switch
between displays easily. True, you can't see them all at once, but
it's a lot better than nothing if you need that sort of thing; it
works fine on a 24x80 screen. The display for all of the screens is
kept in main memory (but where else can you put it on an IBM-AT?).
On a system with 3.5 meg of core, 10*2K is not a whole lot of loss.
A simple priority scheme assures that if anything is output to the
console, the system immediately switches to that screen. Disk errors
and such panics are therefore immediately visible.
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<std dsclm, copies upon request> Tanner Andrews
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