Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In the early 1990s the Display Industry Association (an industry consortium in California) defined a standard AlphaWindows that would allow a single CRT screen to implement multiple windows, each of which was to behave as a distinct computer terminal. Individual vendors offered products based on this in 1992 and after, through the end of the 1990s.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".

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