[Coco] Dual monitors on a Coco 3?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

We used that at work extensively - we controlled 3 printers using windowing on the Coco 3 itself, and had 8 RS-232 terminals set up around the plant also running off it. Full multi-user and multi-tasking. There are some text editors and terminal programs that supported TERMCAP style capabilities,so we could run them on various kinds of terminals. We even had a custom OS9TERM program for DOS that supported OS-9 display codes for colors, changing screen resolutions (Text only), and even supported overlay windows.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Mar 13, 2017, at 9:39 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> With OS-9, the coco could even go beyond multiple displays to multiple
> users, each of which could have multiple displays if you really wanted, and
> this was possible to some degree even in the coco 1/2 days of level 1.
> IBM/MS-DOS never gained the capabilities that OS-9 had in 1980 or 81 IIRC.
> The coco is definitely a cool computer.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Paul Shoemaker <paulfe3 at swbell.net> wrote:
> 
>> That's amazing, isn't it?  Our favorite $200 8-bit computer could run
>> THREE video displays simultaneously back in 1986!  Mainstream
>> MS-DOS/Windows PCs couldn't do that until, what... the late 90's?  And even
>> then the needed to do it was definitely not cheap.
>> What a cool little machine we have.
>> 
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