12 Jun
2006
12 Jun
'06
2:26 a.m.
Did these old minis use a teletype or a monitor as stdout? The pictures
I've seen of them looks like they used a printout as stdout.
Bill
12 Jun
12 Jun
2:43 a.m.
On Sunday 11 June 2006 09:26 pm, Bill Cunningham wrote:
Did these old minis use a teletype or a monitor as
stdout? The pictures
I've seen of them looks like they used a printout as stdout.
V7 assumes a teletype and has little or no provision for anything else. There
are retrofits for termcap and ncurses out there, though.
3:17 a.m.
Kelli Halliburton wrote
V7 assumes a teletype and has little or no provision
for anything else.
Having used it in "the good old days," I can only assure you that this
was totally true. I thought we were truly in heaven when we upgraded
from 110 baud Teletypes to 1200 baud Decwriters! My goodness, I feel
really old just now. :-)
Frank
5:11 a.m.
On 6/11/06, Frank Wortner <frank(a)wortner.com> wrote:
Ian King wrote:
If you had ever attached a DEC VT05 (glass teletype) to your Sixth
Edition or Seventh Edition Unix system you would understand why the
Usenix monthly magazine is named ";login:". The user prompt contains
escape sequences to control a model 37 Teletype, but the VT05 doesn't
respond to them, and in fact ignores the <esc> character and just
displays the semicolon and colon part of the escape sequences.
carl
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenst(a)ucsd.edu
I remember reworking the serial card on a PDP-8/e
to talk to a 2400
baud "glass teletype," f
Thanks for all the nostalgic comments. Now I
feel (a few months)
younger. :-)
7:21 a.m.
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:11:07PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
If you had ever attached a DEC VT05 (glass teletype)
to your Sixth
Edition or Seventh Edition Unix system you would understand why the
Usenix monthly magazine is named ";login:". The user prompt contains
escape sequences to control a model 37 Teletype, but the VT05 doesn't
respond to them, and in fact ignores the <esc> character and just
displays the semicolon and colon part of the escape sequences.
ISTR that 2.9BSD on the Pro 350 does this too.
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David Evans dfevans(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Research Associate http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
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