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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 07:53 PM EDT |
Exactly. And you didn't need something as "sophisticated" as a VT100
to do it. In the late 70's/early 80's EMACS allowed you to split screens into
separate areas even on relatively dumb devices like ADM-3A/ADM-5 terminals. Each
section could be doing something entirely unrelated to the others, like
compiling a program, listing processes, editing a file, etc. Crude by today's
standards, but it sure saved our sanity back in the day of line editors.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 07:57 AM EDT |
The |X| Desktop from SCO (cough), had a fabulous early icon-based system for
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| Authored by: jesse on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 10:25 AM EDT |
You had to have a simulated windowing environment to govern access to the
terminal. Otherwise the escape sequences needed would get scrambled (saw
that...).
Back in the day though, I developed a "command interpreter" for a
PDP-11 based navigation system. The display was divided into 4 areas - basic
status readings at the top (along with a clock display), raw ranging samples
with status (ranging samples in double height, double width, status in single
height/double width), a two line log message area, and an 8 line menu display
(up to four columns) with highlighted selection.
The clock and system status were "unobtrusive". As I recall, the
driver handled the serialized access to the display, and two more with the
keyboard (one for the keypad, one for the regular keys - it allowed for special
functions to be implemented quickly.
This would have been in the 1983-85 timeframe.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: jrl on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 03:56 PM EDT |
One of my all-time favorites, you can type at
each other full-duplex. You get the top of the
screen, the other party gets the bottom. You can
read what they are typing as you type at them, or
not... but real full-duplex makes the information
flow more than twice as fast.
Wait a minute, can I get a patent on that?
Full duplex tiles anyone?
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