kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) (09/18/89)
We've been using MultiView at our site for a while now.
While it's a great package, I seem to notice that with two people running
multiview, the system gets pretty beat up. I wonder if anyone else has seen
this??
On our main machine, a 25 MHz 386 with 8 Meg of RAM. It's not as badly
affected as our 16 MHz machine, which has at least two heavy duty mview users
on it at all times.
Is there any other (perhaps public domain) packages out there that do
windowing on ascii terminals? Has anyone ported the UCB /usr/ucb/window
program (or something similar) to Xenix?
Seraching for alternatives...
---Kayvan
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In article <KAYVAN.89Sep17222039@mrspoc.Transact.COM>, kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) writes: > We've been using MultiView at our site for a while now. > > While it's a great package, I seem to notice that with two people running > multiview, the system gets pretty beat up. I wonder if anyone else has seen > this?? I had multiview runtime installed on nstar - since it came with the Professional package. I did notice that after booting the modified kernel (created from the install script) that the system response was much slower and I ended up removing the Professional, Manager and Multiview since I never ran it. -- Larry Snyder SCO Xenix 2.3.2 '386 uucp: iuvax!ndcheg!ndmath!nstar!larry The Northern Star Usenet Distribution Site HST / PEP / V.22 Notre Dame, Indiana USA Home of the fighting Irish!
bruce@mdi386.UUCP (Bruce A. McIntyre) (09/18/89)
In article <KAYVAN.89Sep17222039@mrspoc.Transact.COM>, kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) writes: > We've been using MultiView at our site for a while now. > While it's a great package, I seem to notice that with two people running > multiview, the system gets pretty beat up. I wonder if anyone else has seen > this?? > Is there any other (perhaps public domain) packages out there that do > windowing on ascii terminals? Has anyone ported the UCB /usr/ucb/window > program (or something similar) to Xenix? > ---Kayvan > -- > Kayvan Sylvan @ Transact Software, Inc. -*- Los Altos, CA (415) 961-6112 > Internet: kayvan@Transact.COM -*- UUCP: ...!{apple,pyramid,mips}!mrspoc!kayvan I have used both MultiView and FaceTerm. While MultiView is fancier, the simplicity of FaceTerm may offer some speed improvements. I have used it primarily on Unisys machines, but I know they also offer it for Xenix. It allows up to 16 windows for a user. They also have a product called PC-Facet that allows a PC to offload much of the windowing protocol from the host to the PC. What I liked best of FaceTerm was it's ability to buffer the complete screen for a session in most terminals, so that when you switch between sessions, you don't lose the screen. Multi-View uses system buffers, which is part of the overhead loss. Try calling: Neal Bert Dir. Marketing Structured Software Solutions, Inc. 4031 West Plano Parkway Suite 205 Plano, Tx. 75093 (214)985-9901 bruce -- ========================================================================= Bruce A. McIntyre, McIntyre Designs, Inc. VOICE(215)322-1895 143 Bridgetown Pike, Langhorne, Pa. 19047 DATA (215)357-2915 {wells|lgnp1}!mdi386!bruce bruce@mdi386 tbit+