Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!laura!hmm
From: hmm@laura.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Unix windows for the ST
Message-ID: <1063@laura.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 10:06:37 GMT
References: <825@a.lanl.gov> <718@stag.UUCP> <826@a.lanl.gov>
Reply-To: hmm@laura.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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In article <826@a.lanl.gov> wxh@a.lanl.gov (Billy Harvey) writes:
>Along the same lines, a program I think would be really useful would work
>similarly to the current implementation of unix windows for the atari st.
>The program would allow basically two 'windows'.  One window would be the
>normal full screen you see for working with whatever system you frequented.
>The other window would be for file transfer only - perhaps one or two
>protocols only, say kermit and zmodem.
>This would allow continued work during file transfer - say reading
>the netnews :-).

I have implemented something like this in Smalltalk-80 on the Mega ST.
The basic idea was that I have a bunch of plug-and-fit modules like
terminals, file transfer protocols, multiplexers etc.  I would just put
a multiplexing thing onto my host port, and then could use 7 ports coming
out of the multiplexing thing for whatever I want.  Of course, don't expect
wonders when doing filetransfers and news reading over the same slow 9600er
serial line...

	Hans-Martin
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