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Here it says "it lets you run your current text based applications in a motif like windowing environment without re-writing the applications", so that looks like you get something like xterm's in a windowing environment, and not with an add-on PC card, but inside a dedicated terminal (which probably presents a multiplxed serial interface to a unix-like machine). Not exactly what the OP was asking for ... but interesting nonetheless.
– dirkt
Commented Mar 29, 2021 at 12:25
And the dedicated terminal /is/ hardware, which is that OP was asking. I only came across them peripherally (so to speak), and I think they were being promoted as potential wrappers around the text sessions which were dominant in those days. I've certainly come across a PC in a similar role, it was in a maintenance office and had icons for 20 or 30 terminal emulator sessions to different mainframes etc. on its screen.
– Mark Morgan Lloyd
Commented Mar 29, 2021 at 14:04

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