🚀 go-pugleaf

I hope that Apple will be more imaginative than what the rumors are
suggesting about Juggler, that it will be a weakly multitasking version
of Switcher or Servant. As more and more computers get networked,
it becomes more and more useful to be able to logon to several
computers at the same time. E.g., I often want to be logged onto
our local Sun network to get mail, to a remote supercomputer to
keep an eye on executing tasks, and logon to a local Vax where
I could run SMP or MACSYMA to do some computer algebra (then cut
and paste results into a Macintosh application, etc.) This need
for remote logon's to many computers at once is also a reality of
the expense of bringing up different kinds of commercial mainframe
software on different nodes: numerical libraries, graphics libraries,
etc.

Will Juggler allow me to run three different versions of VersaTerm-PRO
for example (one of my favorite terminal emulators) so that this would
be possible? Would each window update correctly (I don't want the
background windows being inactive, so that I can be aware of what's
going on at each computer)? One can do this sort of thing easily on a Sun
or UNIX workstation, but there are no SUN terminal emulators competitive
with the state-of-the-art now available in the Macintosh world.
Another alternative would be to make Macintosh applications compatible
with a UNIX environment and make Juggler a Mac-like interface on top
of UNIX so that multiple-identical-applications work in the usual
UNIX way.

I hope Apple does it right. I have been spoiled by the high quality Mac
software now available, but have my doubts about how easily these
applications can be brought into a UNIX-like world.