Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ki4pv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hropus!ki4pv!tanner From: tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (Tanner Andrews) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Re: windows on normal terminals Message-ID: <6918@ki4pv.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Jun-86 10:03:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ki4pv.6918 Posted: Tue Jun 17 10:03:34 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Jun-86 08:16:00 EDT References: <363@hrc63.UUCP> <16600003@ztivax.UUCP> <522@cad.BERKELEY.EDU> <395@dg_rtp.UUCP>, <562@bcsaic.UUCP> Organization: CompuData South, DeLand Lines: 18 Keywords: terminal windows ) 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- 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. -- Tanner Andrews