AlphaWindows was a proposed

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from the Display Industry Association (an industry

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) in the early 1990s that would allow a single

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to implement multiple windows, each of which was to behave as a distinct

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. Individual vendors offered products based on this in 1992 through the end of the 1990s. These products were targeted at a low-end market. The initial concept relied on custom (but low-cost) terminals which would support mouse interaction, (text) windowing support, and colored text. With that, plus special host software, the vendors proposed to support semi-graphical applications "transparently".

Organization

The Display Industry Association was at the same location as Cumulus Technology (the same street address in

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). Cumulus was a manufacturer of displays since 1986. Cumulus was heavily involved with development of the AlphaWindows standard. The members of the association in 1993 were: ; Terminal vendors: *

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(partnership) * Cumulus * DEC * Link /

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; Software vendors: * Cumulus * JSB * Nutec * SSSI Only Cumulus was proposing both to develop the terminals and the host software. However, Cumulus did not survive: it went bankrupt.

Software

JSB Software Technologies produced ''MultiView Mascot''. As noted in Unix Review: , the product is owned by FutureSoft. SSSI (Structured Software Solutions, Inc.) produced the ''FacetTerm'' session multiplexer.

Organization

Software

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