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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Multi-windowing Comm software?
Message-ID: <6861@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 2 May 90 07:54:39 GMT
References: <175@qt.cs.utexas.edu> <46500073@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <^FW#NX%@rpi.edu> <6227@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
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In article <6227@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> millerje@scarlatti.CS.ColoState.Edu.UUCP (jeffrey scott miller) writes:
>In article <^FW#NX%@rpi.edu> dorsai@pawl.rpi.edu (G. Donald Moncreaff) writes:
>>In article <46500073@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> rlk20269@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>>
>>>If anyone has any information on this subject, I would greatly appreciate
>>>some EMail about it.  A friend of mine always uses Unix Windows on the
>>>Atari ST and I was hoping to find something like it for PC's.
>
>After trying MANY PC communications packages, the one I have found to be
>the best, which coincidentally is the only one that multitasks and has
>windows, is TELEMATE v2.00a, a SHAREWARE communications program by Tsung Hu.

This was not the point of the original article.  Unix Windows (and also
D-Net, on the Amiga) is a protocol which allows a pc user to run multiple
sessions on a mainframe and view them in multiple windows, using ONE
CONNECTION.  I would also very much like to see something like this for
Windows (or OS/2); if the Amiga can do it, why can't we?

--
Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu
DISCLAIMER: I don't have much experience with UW, but I have friends with 
	    Amigas who use dnet all the time.