Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!peregrine!ccicpg!felix!tgate!ka3ovk!ki4pv!cdin-1!dsinc!wells!mdi386!bruce From: bruce@mdi386.UUCP (Bruce A. McIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: MultiView questions Summary: FaceTerm is available for most systems Message-ID: <139@mdi386.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 89 14:28:30 GMT References: Organization: Wells Computer Systems Corp., Levittown, Pa. 19058 Lines: 40 In article , kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) writes: > We've been using MultiView at our site for a while now. > While it's a great package, I seem to notice that with two people running > multiview, the system gets pretty beat up. I wonder if anyone else has seen > this?? > Is there any other (perhaps public domain) packages out there that do > windowing on ascii terminals? Has anyone ported the UCB /usr/ucb/window > program (or something similar) to Xenix? > ---Kayvan > -- > Kayvan Sylvan @ Transact Software, Inc. -*- Los Altos, CA (415) 961-6112 > Internet: kayvan@Transact.COM -*- UUCP: ...!{apple,pyramid,mips}!mrspoc!kayvan I have used both MultiView and FaceTerm. While MultiView is fancier, the simplicity of FaceTerm may offer some speed improvements. I have used it primarily on Unisys machines, but I know they also offer it for Xenix. It allows up to 16 windows for a user. They also have a product called PC-Facet that allows a PC to offload much of the windowing protocol from the host to the PC. What I liked best of FaceTerm was it's ability to buffer the complete screen for a session in most terminals, so that when you switch between sessions, you don't lose the screen. Multi-View uses system buffers, which is part of the overhead loss. Try calling: Neal Bert Dir. Marketing Structured Software Solutions, Inc. 4031 West Plano Parkway Suite 205 Plano, Tx. 75093 (214)985-9901 bruce -- ========================================================================= Bruce A. McIntyre, McIntyre Designs, Inc. VOICE(215)322-1895 143 Bridgetown Pike, Langhorne, Pa. 19047 DATA (215)357-2915 {wells|lgnp1}!mdi386!bruce bruce@mdi386 tbit+