Network Computing Devices Inc, Mountain View, California, has introduced two new mono terminals that bring windowing functionality to character-based ASCII environments without the need to change the host software or applications. The 15, 1,024 by 880 MWT15b and 19, 1,280 by 1,024 MWT19 can display up to eight windows, running different applications such as transaction processing, database management and office automation, from multiple networked hosts. X Window terminals usually require X Window client software to be installed on every networked host. Network Computing has placed these window management and terminal emulation functions – which in X-terminal environments reside on the host – inside the terminal itself. The terminals can be connected to an Ethernet network and replace an ASCII terminal with no changes to the host software. The MWT15b costs $1,700 – the MWT19 is $3,400 – both come with 4Mb RAM.
