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From: smaug@eng.umd.edu (Kurt Lidl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore and 68040
Message-ID: <1990Feb4.185947.7519@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 90 18:59:47 GMT
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In article <204@modcomp.UUCP> srp@modcomp.UUCP (Steve Pietrowicz) writes:
>in article <1990Feb1.071944.7706@eng.umd.edu>, smaug@eng.umd.edu (Kurt Lidl) says:
>- And yes, indeed, the unix ran, X11 ran, and the multiple screen support
>- on the Moniterm monitor that they had running was really neato-keen.

>Can you elaborate on "multiple screen support"?  Do you mean like on
>a stock Amiga?

Using a combination of the Alt key and the function keys along the top
of the keyboard, multiple screens were permitted.  EG:  Alt F10 produced
the 1008x800 (or whatever the Viking/Moniterm produces) screen running
X11 on it.  Another function key produced a 80x24 text display that
had a /bin/sh running in it.  One of the "neat" things about this was
the (and I quote) "infinnite baud console driver" -- there is a
program called "truss" (If I remember correctly) that spews out all
the system calls that a program is making... The screen was just a blur
as this was happening... Pretty neat application for the blitter...

At any rate, the display I saw was only on the Viking moniterm monitor
-- I didn't think to ask about stock Amigas with just a 1080 monitor
or the equivilent.

PS -- the computer had a Boing! mouse on it.
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