MartyMonroe
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Back in the 1970/80s, I worked on SCO/Unix and AIX systems, and we connected to the boxes using Wyse terminals. We had some software installed on systems which enabled you to do exactly what tmux did. You kicked it off and typed in your commands. If you proceeded the command with (I think) ctrl/shift/b, that put it on the second window, ctrl/shift/c the third etc. It was damned useful on dumb terminals, but I really can't see much of a need if you've got X, as the article says, just kick off another terminal.
Speaking of Wyse terminals, from memory the Wyse 60s were multi-session. Where I worked, one session connected you to the inhouse boxes and the other session to a dial up modem, which enabled you to connect to the client machines. I can't remember how we switched between sessions (probably by a low-tech rocker switch), but I do remember looking at the clients machine and then switching to an inhouse box running their software so we could determine what their problem was.
We have W10 were I work and it never fails to amaze me just how primitive the "Windows experience" is. Where are the multiple desktops, multiple logins, a search that works, etc? Open source software that are use on the M$ box on a daily basis include Cygwin (for grep and vi), Notepad++, Evince (the fastest pdf reader I've found), Audacity, Avidemux, LibreOffice, as well as KeyPass and Gimp. Three other excellent tools I use are Irfanview, JRuler and UBitMenu. UBitMenu is well worth the £10 licence cost. If like me, you've never gotten on with the ribbon in M$ Office, it solves that problem by giving back the proper menus.