Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!att!cbnewsc!straka
From: straka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (richard.j.straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacLayers or System V uw server??
Message-ID: <2810@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 89 12:52:03 GMT
References: <458@amanue.UUCP>
Reply-To: straka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (richard.j.straka,ih,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <458@amanue.UUCP> jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes:
>did put in a Layers driver which supposedly works.  Once upon a time there was
>something on the net about a piece of software called MacLayers, which was a
>Mac program that would emulate a Layers windowing terminal.  It was said to be
>pretty buggy as I recall, but this has been a while.  (Please don't take
>offense if you are the author of MacLayers!)  What's the status of MacLayers?
>Is there anything else similar?

MacLayers basically does "DMD" (AT&T 5620) emulation ("layers") on the
Macintosh under a System V environment.

MacLayers was written a few years ago by Tom Rhodes (at the time) working at
AT&T Bell Laboratories.  As of a few months ago, he left AT&T to go to work
for Compaq.

MacLayers is considered (as I understand) by both Tom and AT&T to be owned by
AT&T.  I am aware of no plans for the marketing of MacLayers, but some work
may be underway for continued ehnancements and/or support internal to AT&T.

At the time, I had only a standard-screen Mac, and I just tried MacLayers on
a quick-checkout basis.  It worked multi-window just fine as a "glass-tty".
I did NOT try any terminal emulation-type functionality, such as screen
editors, ...