Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
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Re: Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
#2Reminds me of
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView
It'd be interesting to try this concept again on the wildly different computers we have now compared to 40 years ago.
4k monitors, high speed networks, dozens of cores, things are significantly different - might open some wildly exciting and new possibilities
Re: Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
#3Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView It'd be interesting to try this concept again on the wildly different computers we have now compared to 40 years ago. 4k monitors, high speed networks, dozens of cores, things are significantly different - might open some wildly exciting and new possibilities
Also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaWindows
Although I’ve never succeeded in locating a copy of the spec, any implementations, even a screenshot… would be great if any of them turned up some day
Re: Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
#4Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView It'd be interesting to try this concept again on the wildly different computers we have now compared to 40 years ago. 4k monitors, high speed networks, dozens of cores, things are significantly different - might open some wildly exciting and new possibilities
Also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaWindows Although I’ve never succeeded in locating a copy of the spec, any implementations, even a screenshot… would be great if any of them turned up some day
This should have enough to build either an emulator or a window manager.
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/displayIndustryAssociation/AlphaWi...
Re: Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
#5Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView It'd be interesting to try this concept again on the wildly different computers we have now compared to 40 years ago. 4k monitors, high speed networks, dozens of cores, things are significantly different - might open some wildly exciting and new possibilities
I'm a fan of the tiles/patterns from DESQView/X
Re: Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
#6Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView It'd be interesting to try this concept again on the wildly different computers we have now compared to 40 years ago. 4k monitors, high speed networks, dozens of cores, things are significantly different - might open some wildly exciting and new possibilities
I'm a fan of the tiles/patterns from DESQView/X https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16044021
I got Desqview/X running about 25 years ago on some Everex. An X Terminal that ran win16 software - Useless but fascinating.
IIRC there was some additional minimal runtime stuff like perl/awk/sed that came with it kinda like MinGW later on
Re: Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a fan of the tiles/patterns from DESQView/X https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16044021
I got Desqview/X running about 25 years ago on some Everex. An X Terminal that ran win16 software - Useless but fascinating. IIRC there was some additional minimal runtime stuff like perl/awk/sed that came with it kinda like MinGW later on
Same experience here. It blew my mind but it wasn't really useable.
Re: Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
#8Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView It'd be interesting to try this concept again on the wildly different computers we have now compared to 40 years ago. 4k monitors, high speed networks, dozens of cores, things are significantly different - might open some wildly exciting and new possibilities
and Borland Turbovision
Re: Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
#9Peak UI for sure!
Re: Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaWindows Although I’ve never succeeded in locating a copy of the spec, any implementations, even a screenshot… would be great if any of them turned up some day
This should have enough to build either an emulator or a window manager. https://bitsavers.org/pdf/displayIndustryAssociation/AlphaWi...
Also there is a firmware dump for the HP 700/70 which implemented it: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/terminal/700/HP_700_70_C1093/
Likewise for the Televideo 995-65: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/televideo/995/firmware/