AlphaWindows - Protocol Information?

[Al Kossow]

a little more info here
ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/shuford/terminal/alphawindows_news.txt

On 9/5/18 7:39 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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> On 9/5/18 5:17 AM, Martin Hepperle via cctalk wrote:
>> In the 1990s a computer terminal standard "AlphaWindows" was proposed by the
>> Display Industry Association (DIA).
>> Sort of X-Windows for the poor.
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> Very poor... only text in the windows.
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> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.terminals/ielBYV-mNLM
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> This is kind of interesting to me, because I helped get TVI 990/995 working in MAME.
> We obviously never had the windowing protocol information either.
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> I wondered why a terminal needed a 68000 inside it.
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> I'm obviously interested in anything you come up with.
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> I guess a place to start is getting a copy of Multiview Mascot and watching the
> serial protocol between it and a terminal.
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> Related.. I worked on a similar product in the mid-80's, except it could do Tek 4015
> graphics in terminal windows. A friend just revived one of the board sets over the weekend.
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> http://bitsavers.org/pdf/aed/colorware_cards/pictures/screen.jpg
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> This was a board-level VME or Qbus product you talked to directly through a shared memory
> queue of virtual terminal connections.
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