🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <826@a.lanl.gov> wxh@a.lanl.gov (Billy Harvey) writes:
>Along the same lines, a program I think would be really useful would work
>similarly to the current implementation of unix windows for the atari st.
>The program would allow basically two 'windows'.  One window would be the
>normal full screen you see for working with whatever system you frequented.
>The other window would be for file transfer only - perhaps one or two
>protocols only, say kermit and zmodem.
>This would allow continued work during file transfer - say reading
>the netnews :-).

I have implemented something like this in Smalltalk-80 on the Mega ST.
The basic idea was that I have a bunch of plug-and-fit modules like
terminals, file transfer protocols, multiplexers etc.  I would just put
a multiplexing thing onto my host port, and then could use 7 ports coming
out of the multiplexing thing for whatever I want.  Of course, don't expect
wonders when doing filetransfers and news reading over the same slow 9600er
serial line...

	Hans-Martin
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