From: bwong@arf.cisco.com bwong@arf.cisco.com
Subject: The future of Plan9?
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 08:46:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19970501124653.wWwlaN0XYAzDPuDDUY8EHgahjkDLu-1qWWH23U6dnaU@z> (raw)
Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org> wrote:
| Strange you should mention that - I noticed it in the docs
| for the first time only the night before last. Trouble is,
| I don't know anything about the hp2621, and had assumed it
| was something esoteric like the textronix that is often provided
| (eg in xterm) but I have never seen used...
|
| But now that I look, there is an entry for it in my
| termcap file :-)
|
| I wonder what the story is behind that emulation being chosen?
| Could it be just that that is what the developers had in their
| labs....??
That is true. When I worked at Bell Labs in 1985, they were leasing
lots of hp2621 terminals. There was an hp2621 emulator for the Blit
and I expect the Plan9 version to be a descendant.
--Bruce F. Wong bwong@cisco.com
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