On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:57 AM Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > > On 9/5/18 5:17 AM, Martin Hepperle via cctalk wrote: > > In the 1990s a computer terminal standard "AlphaWindows" was proposed by > the > > Display Industry Association (DIA). > > Sort of X-Windows for the poor. > > Very poor... only text in the windows. > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.terminals/ielBYV-mNLM > > This is kind of interesting to me, because I helped get TVI 990/995 > working in MAME. > We obviously never had the windowing protocol information either. > > I wondered why a terminal needed a 68000 inside it. > > I'm obviously interested in anything you come up with. > > I guess a place to start is getting a copy of Multiview Mascot and > watching the > serial protocol between it and a terminal. > > > -- > > Related.. I worked on a similar product in the mid-80's, except it could > do Tek 4015 > graphics in terminal windows. A friend just revived one of the board sets > over the weekend. > > http://bitsavers.org/pdf/aed/colorware_cards/pictures/screen.jpg > > This was a board-level VME or Qbus product you talked to directly through > a shared memory > queue of virtual terminal connections. > > > Interesting stuff. I just (a few weeks ago) saw a boxed copy of FacetTerm for Unix at a store with a lot of old electronics and computer stuff. I see now that FacetTerm worked with the AlphaWindows standard (although I think it could do its own thing too). Looks like it's still available for Linux. -- Eric Christopherson
