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From: pete@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu
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Subject: Re: new moderated newsgroup(s) for Atari ST software distrbution
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Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 10:49:06 EST
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	In reference to what UW does....

	UW is a communications and windowing protocal developped by for
the MacIntosh (I am sorry, I am currently at work and do not have the
authors name available. I will post later).
	UW works in two parts: A server working under UNIX on the "host"
machine, and a "client" module on the mac (or st...). The client and server
implement a small packet communications protocal which allows the client (st)
to have up to 7 windows active, each with its own copy of csh (or whatever)
running. Different terminal protocals may be used in each window, and all
windows are COMPLETELY independant of each other.
	An interesting aspect of this (and my reason for implementing) is
that by using "rlogin" one can have more than one UNIX machine feeding
one st. Each machine in a different window. The ultimate in convenience.
	As for whether it COULD work under minix, Yes, it could. However
one would have to have access to GEM, or a similar graphics environment.
If one were to find out where GEM stores it's variables etc, would it not
be possible to perform a "context switch" on it, and use gem for more than
one app at a time? Or am I being COMPLETELY unrealistic...
	ANYWAYs.. most of the windowing stuff and grahics are finished on 
UW. All I have to do is finish the protocal implementation, and come up
with some more terminal emulations (only glass tty right now...). One other
thing that remains is implementing the .rsc file for menus. I have no
resource compiler, so this is a problem. Can anyone help out?

						Thanks,
						Pete Santangeli
						pete@utcs