[Coco] Tutorial on Telnet/inetd on Coco3 DW4 (is there one?)

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

I do not believe it.

Proof that someone in the world is using Colorful Sled ED6.

Amazing.

Now if you can get four windows on the same screen with sled editing 
different files in each window you will start to see how I was developed 
programs.

What about 105 columns on a graphics screen? Does searches which go to a 
different window work?

Seeing "COLORFUL-COLORFUL SLED TEXT PROTECT" blew my mind!

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Tutorial on Telnet/inetd on Coco3 DW4 (is there one?)


> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>
>> But I just did a dw p s in the gui and I have to ask, what is the ZTerm 
>> and
>> a bunch of /Z0-Z15 devices for?  Did I get stoned and miss the 
>> announcement
>> or ??
>>
>
> /Zx are virtual window devices.  Just as /Nx provide virtual serial
> channels that map to various things on the server, the /Z devices map
> to windows on the server.
>
> i.e:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C-QvdX2bNQ
>
> That video was before the decision to separate window channels from
> serial channels, so you'll see me using /Nx there.  After some real
> world use we found that because the device descriptors for window
> devices are quite different from serial ports, and because the
> expected server behavior is very different, it was best to make them
> unique right from the moment they are initialized.
>
> /ZTerm is the graphical window equivalent of the /NTerm, which is used
> when you put OS9's console on a virtual channel or window.  This
> allows you to forego loading some big fat modules needed to drive the
> CoCo's display and keyboard and have a "headless" coco with an
> extraordinary amount of free ram in the system page.
>