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From: nick@utcsscb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: new moderated newsgroup(s) for Atari ST software distrbution
Message-ID: <569@utcsscb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 19:43:59 EST
Article-I.D.: utcsscb.569
Posted: Tue Feb 24 19:43:59 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Feb-87 22:35:32 EST
References: <882@imagen.UUCP> <1987Feb21.001121.12535@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: nick@utcsscb.UUCP (Nick Zehlena)
Organization: Univ. of Toronto - Scarborough Campus "B" VAX
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Keywords: newsgroup,atari,st
Summary: 

In article <1987Feb24.104906.29404@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> pete@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Peter Santangeli) writes:
>
>	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



		I think the question was if the Unix server could run
under Minix NOT if the other end runs on the Atari. EEsh programs who
can't read .


		Nick