loki@Physics.McGill.CA (Loki Jorgenson Rm421) (02/13/90)
Archive-name: uw/10-Feb-90
Original-posting-by: Loki Jorgenson Rm421 <loki@Physics.McGill.CA>
Original-subject: UW
Archive-site: wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
This is a product announcement for some and a request for others.
For those who are not aware of it, I would like to descibe the
Mac console emulator "uw". For Macs connected to a SUN (or other BSD
Unix machine) through a serial port, it permits as many as 7 distinct
window shells, graphics or text, in the manner of a SUN console. The
various windows are multiplexed through the single serial line, each
running simultaneous shells on the host machine. Especially at 19200
baud for a directly connected machine, this is a tremendous improvement
over standard emulators. For those who are interested, the source code
for UNIX and the MacBinary executable are available via anonymous FTP
from wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4).
For those who are already familiar with "uw", I am looking for
a version of it which has been modified for SYS V. We have an IRIS
Personal running IRIX 3.2.1 (SYS V with BSD'isms) which we would like
to set up with "uw". However, the mods don't look all that easy. I'm
attempting it now but it may take a while since I am busy and this
isn't my forte; maybe you can spare me the agony.
Thanks in advance,
Loki Jorgenson node: loki@physics.mcgill.ca
Physics, McGill University fax: (514) 398-3733
Montreal Quebec CANADA phone: (514) 398-6531
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