jason@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU (Jason Venner) (09/22/87)
Has anyone done anything along the lines of a distributed emacs?
The particular case that interestes me is:
Having the user output and input handled by a given machine, and
being able to have machine interaction sections running on several
different machines that communicate with the user io section.
Jasonrbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA.UUCP (10/01/87)
Date: 22 Sep 87 00:59:35 GMT From: Jason Venner <VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU!jason@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Sender: unix-emacs-request@BBN.COM Has anyone done anything along the lines of a distributed emacs? Encore makes a terminal server called the Annex. This is the normal way of talking to their Multimax as there are no terminal ports on the main machine (except the system control board has two, so it is somewhat like the SUN). It comes in two flavors: regular, for connecting to an ethernet attached to any box supporting either telnet of rlogin protocol; and super, for connecting to a Multimax. In this mode, the terminal driver lives on the Annex, and, as an added bonus, it runs GNU EMACS partially on the Annex, and partially on the Multimax. Whether this has anything to do with the start-server function I don't know. Drawbacks are that it would seem difficult if not impossible to upgrade to a new version without either having source or Encore's help. For further info, call 1-800-3ENCORE. Disclaimer: I do not have any interest in either of the above boxes, except I would like to get my hands on one. Jason (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell <rbj@icst-cmr.arpa> National Bureau of Standards Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688 TAILFINS!! ...click...