From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 30 13:40:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA22116 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 13:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl (root@linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA22087 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 13:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uni4nn.iaf.nl (root@uni4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.33]) by linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA17213; Thu, 30 May 1996 22:21:12 +0200 Received: by uni4nn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA16256 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Thu, 30 May 1996 22:20:40 +0200 Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA30897 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Thu, 30 May 1996 21:39:43 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA08231; Thu, 30 May 1996 21:17:43 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199605301917.VAA08231@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands Subject: Re: vt100/syscons/pcvt To: pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 21:17:43 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605292327.TAA13134@shell.monmouth.com> from "Bill/Carolyn Pechter" at May 29, 96 07:27:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote... > > > > take in these comparatively early days of GUI technology, so be it - > > > > just consider me 3-4 years ahead of my time on this issue. :-) > > > > > > Ehh, even the VT100 can handle 132 columns 8) > > > > Wrong. Only a VT100 with an AVO installed. (For the curious: the Advanced > > Video Option board). > > > > Bzzt. Wrong. The vt100 without AVO would do 14 lines of 132 columns. > Check the vt100 handbook and old termcap (Uniplus SYS III I think sources...) 14 lines is unusable in my book. But you are right. You need the couple of 2114 SRAMs to make the other lines possible. > Bill > ex-DEC Field Circus > Vax and VT100 board shuffler... Oh, the days when 1 kbyte was expensive... Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------