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For a while now, I have playing around with this idea. Since now I am
too busy with the Atari Dealership I started up, I decided to pass
on the idea, and see if anyone out there wants to tackle it.

A desktop accessory terminal program.

This would be an accessory like VT52, only working INSIDE of GEM, and
not with TOS. It would work inside a GEM window, and allow the user
to re-size the window to any size.

Problems I see with this:

Being a GEM program, emulation will be gone, but for the purposes
that it would be used for, ASCII emulation would be fine.

Slow Scrolling. Well, since it is NOT a main terminal program, 300
baud would not be that bad. I can then jump to FLASH or UNITERM when
I need speed.

With Blitter, this could be pushed to a steady 1200 baud.

What to do when desk accessory is DE-selected, but still on the desktop?
Well, IF closed, it should just send a CTRL-S, and when opened a CTRL-Q.
Or, it could use a RS-232 buffer, like VT52.
Or, (This is where I get clowdy...) it could keep on scrolling, working
in the background like several desktop accessories...(thunder)

The main use for this, is that I could have a notepad, calculator and
even a game...(reversi?) on the desktop, while on the modem to my
mainframe...

Biggest use, would be so I can use Word Writer ST, while keeping an eye
on a small terminal window, to see if I get any mail, or what is
happening.

If thunder can work in the background, why not a simple terminal?

I started work on this in Personal Pascal, but the lack of support
for scrolling made it a serious problem. And now that I am too busy,
I cannot dig in, and take the time to figure out how to do it by
means of gemdos calls.

So, I leave this open to any of you to try to figure out, it could turn
out to be rather interesting. May I note, the Mac has had this for
a while, and rather usefull, I admit.

Rick Flashman                         Flash@UMASS.BITNET
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