The Unix Heritage Society mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Heinz Lycklama <heinz@osta.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: virtual consoles / Alt-Fx
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 08:45:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b32d1180-803d-4877-1f68-c9b9e45ac64e@osta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ema8af6b3f-4d4f-4f54-89de-2a1365708e31@ad99ed46.com>

Nice work Ron!

On 3/13/2023 8:33 AM, Ron Natalie wrote:
> The AIX for the PS/2 had a thing called the HFT which allowed you to 
> switch the VGA head between different virtual screens long before 
> LINUX came along.
>
> I was using Xenix back on the 286, both on PCs and on an Intel 310 
> Multibus I system.  The IBM Xenix I had on my 286 system (A real 
> honest to god IBM PC AT)
> had the feature Mutliscreen (TM) which supproted nine terminals.    
> This was in 1984.
>
> Amusingly we moved on to the 386 on a Multibus II system.   We had 
> started with an Intel-done port of Interactive Systems’s (Hi, Heinz!) 
> product but it turns out Intel couldn’t provide (they claim they lost 
> it) the source of the Multibus II interfaces to allow us to upgrade to 
> a newer release so given the generic 386 IS/1 sources, I sat down and 
> rebuilt all the MB-II specific stuff.   I really did like that bus, 
> too bad it didn’t catch on.
>
> -Ron
>


  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-13 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-13 15:12 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-03-13 15:24 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2023-03-13 15:27   ` Clem Cole
2023-03-13 16:17     ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-13 15:41   ` Warner Losh
2023-03-13 15:48     ` KenUnix
2023-03-13 15:48     ` Clem Cole
2023-03-13 16:14     ` Dan Cross
2023-03-13 17:26       ` Miod Vallat
2023-03-13 20:35         ` Dan Cross
2023-03-14 16:42   ` Derek Fawcus via TUHS
2023-03-14 22:46     ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-03-15  4:26       ` Heinz Lycklama
2023-03-13 15:27 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-13 15:30 ` Warner Losh
2023-03-14  3:27   ` Rik Schneider
2023-03-13 15:33 ` Ron Natalie
2023-03-13 15:45   ` Heinz Lycklama [this message]
2023-03-13 17:04   ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-13 15:49 ` Brad Spencer
2023-03-17  8:14 ` Marc Donner
2023-03-14  3:33 Rudi Blom

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=b32d1180-803d-4877-1f68-c9b9e45ac64e@osta.com \
    --to=heinz@osta.com \
    --cc=tuhs@tuhs.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).