[TUHS] virtual consoles / Alt-Fx

[Heinz Lycklama]

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
>