[TUHS] DMD 5620 simulator

[Kevin Bowling]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 8:55 PM Joseph Holsten <joseph at josephholsten.com> wrote:
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> I haven’t. I’m not sure how much it differs from the acme experience, but I still miss them especially the terminal-as-editor. I hear some of the same people may have been involved.
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> Which is why I can’t possibly make time for the adm-3a, that never ending hobby project is already claimed by my desire for acme with syntax highlighting.
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> /me goes back to working in a :term inside neovim inside tmux inside a mosh session inside a glorified vt100 emulator, while absolutely not crying about applications being ignorant of presentation layer for “portability”

https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/

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> On Sep 13, 2022, at 16:35, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
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> Have you ever run a BLIT?  It's basically a windowing system over a
> serial line except the protocol is really smart, it knows that the
> terminal knows how to do a bunch of stuff.
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> In my opinion, the best serial line terminal ever built.
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> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 03:29:39PM -0700, Joseph Holsten wrote:
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> I was wondering why you???d pick this term of all historical terms to emulate. Now I have a terrible urge to try my hand at an ADM-3A.
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> Which just reminds me of this teletype 33 ad: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teletype_Model_33_Terminal_June_1974.jpg
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> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022, at 16:25, Seth Morabito wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> I've recently been improving the AT&T/Teletype DMD 5620 simulator I
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> wrote a few years ago. It can now run either the 8;7;3 or 8;7;5
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> firmware. It also now supports executing a local shell or connecting
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> directly to a physical or virtual tty device. It runs natively on Linux
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> or macOS with X11 or Wayland, but I would love help creating a Windows
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> version if you're a Windows programmer (I am an occasional Windows
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> user, but I am not at all knowledgeable about Windows programming).
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> Full details are available here: https://loomcom.com/3b2/dmd5620_emulator.html
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> The source code is here: https://github.com/sethm/dmd_gtk
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> Many thanks go to my friend Sark (@crtdude on Twitter) for tracking
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> down the 8;7;3 firmware and dumping it for me. I'd also like to thank
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> Mike Haertel for helping find bugs, providing feedback, and inspiring
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> me to get it working with Research Unix in addition to SVR3.
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> Feedback, bug reports, and pull requests are all welcome!
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> -Seth
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>  Seth Morabito
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>  Poulsbo, WA
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>  web at loomcom.com
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> Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing          http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat