Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!dsinc!cdin-1!icdi70!art From: art@icdi70.COMPU.COM (Art @ Home) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco Subject: Re: multiport serial board info needed Message-ID: Date: 25 Oct 90 13:18:25 GMT References: <1990Oct23.190858.20931@mrspoc.Transact.COM> Organization: The Land of LeKoff Lines: 43 itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List) writes: > dt@mathcs.emory.edu (Dave Taylor {guest}) writes: > > >We are looking for a board with good multi-screens. Mscreen just doesn't cu > >the mustard and if we can have everything done on the I/O board, then we can > >save the extra CPU processing as well as memory. > > [ Removed stuff about specific vendors ] > > We've found the Specialix boards and their multiple screens work very > well. However... > > I'd have to ask "Why worry about the hardware vendor? Why not try > MultiView?" > > No, I don't own stock in JSB (who makes MultiView) or SCO (who sells > it for XENIX). I DO use it and LOVE it. Little windows all over my > terminal screen and stuff. Print screen and cut and paste and... > > It's pretty neat. Might be worth considering, and it's independent of > the multiport board vendors! Some of the board vendors (Stallion is > one, I believe) have included some stuff to optimize the functioning > of MultiView, too. > -- > +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > : Steven List @ Transact Software, Inc. :^>~ > : Chairman, Unify User Group of Northern California > : {apple,coherent,limbo,mips,pyramid,ubvax}!itkin@guinan.Transact.COM I would be happy to send info on multi-view to the original poster, and anyone who requests it. It really is as good as this post says. It's only downfall is that it is a bit of a memory hog....otherwise, real nice!! Art ####################################################################### # # # It's time to make a new sig file. I'll make it when I think of one. # # This sig belongs to art@icdi70.COMPU.COM. # # # #######################################################################