🚀 go-pugleaf

I just downloaded the 'uw' program from sumex-aim, and found it to be the
most incrediblely interesting program I have seen in a long time!  I imagine
that maybe others are ignorant about it also, so here is a one paragraph
description.

uw is actually two programs, one you run on a BSD 4.3 (or 4.2) system, and
one you run on your Mac.  The server on the BSD end will use ptys to
set up as many as 7 shells for you, and the client on the Mac will put
each one in its own resizeable window.  This works across SERIAL, DIAL-UP
lines!  This means that you can dial up your local VAX and have multiple
windows, without using a Sun over Ethernet, or X-windows, or any of the
other big ticket items you might otherwise need.

As far as I know, this is the only program that lets you set up
a multi-window environment over dial-up lines.  (It does VT52, ADM31, and
TEK4010 emulations.  In the future, downloading protocols are planned.  Last,
the uw protocol seems fairly-well defined, and might make it to the (ugh) IBM
world *someday*.)

Congratulations to John D. Bruner, its author.


Wayne Folta          (folta@tove.umd.edu  128.8.128.42)