From: "Ron Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: "Paul Ruizendaal" <pnr@planet.nl>, "tuhs@tuhs.org" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: virtual consoles / Alt-Fx
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:33:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ema8af6b3f-4d4f-4f54-89de-2a1365708e31@ad99ed46.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <78FE1F5F-7408-4BB0-8D2E-62AA00465774@planet.nl>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-13 15:33 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 [this message]
2023-03-13 15:45 ` Heinz Lycklama
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
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