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AlphaWindows was a proposed industry standard from the Display Industry Association (an industry consortium in California) in the early 1990s that would allow a single CRT screen to implement multiple windows, each of which was to behave as a distinct computer terminal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 "Alphawindows" -- a windowing setup for character-cell video terminals )〕 Individual vendors offered products based on this in 1992 through the end of the 1990s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 First AlphaWindows Character-Based Terminals Set For To Appear in May, At From $600... )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Microvitec First Past Post in Europe with AlphaWindows Terminals; IBM OEM Pact in Prospect... )〕 and after,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Colour and Mono AlphaWindow Terminals from LINK )〕 These products were targeted at a low-end market: "for users that don't need the processing power of a personal computer or the complexity of an X Window terminal, the AlphaWindow terminals and software provides the same look and feel of windows-based graphical user interfaces on an Alphanumeric terminal".〔 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 Palo Alto, CA).〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 User Interface Software Tools )〕 Cumulus was a manufacturer of displays since 1986.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Cumulus Technology Wins Contract from Unisys )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Company Summary — Cumulus Technology Ltd. )〕 Cumulus was heavily involved with development of the AlphaWindows standard. The members of the association in 1993 were:〔 ; Terminal vendors: * AT&T / NCR / ADDS (partnership) * Cumulus * DEC * Link / Wyse (partnership) * MicroVitek * Siemens / Nixdorf (partnership) * TeleVideo ; 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.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Did Cumulus drop off the face of the earth, again?? (HP3000-L mailing list comment) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Small Box 'To End Digital Divide' (InterLUG mailing list comment) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「AlphaWindows」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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