From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832)
Subject: [TUHS] Teletype simulator?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:23:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1458829435.3527640.558610626.18E102BB@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160324131926.41FF518C0ED@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 09:19, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: Warren Toomey
>
> > I thought it would be nice to get a feel for what it was like to use a
> > real tty
>
> Make sure it only prints 10 characters per second, then. (I think TTY's
> were
> 10 cps?) R-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w.
Yeah. 110 baud, 1 start, 2 stop.
I'd looked into this because I was at one point writing a terminal
emulator that would simulate the slowness and the ability to overstrike
characters. I didn't have a suitable font though, and since the slowness
was done at the front end, anything that produced lots of output was
uninterruptible on OSX (worked fine on Linux though
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-24 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-24 13:19 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-24 14:23 ` Random832 [this message]
2016-03-24 16:41 ` Jacob Goense
2016-03-24 14:28 ` Lawrence Stewart
2016-03-25 21:27 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-25 21:56 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-03-28 12:04 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-03-24 14:40 ` George Ross
2016-03-24 15:29 ` Random832
2016-03-24 15:32 ` John Cowan
2016-03-24 16:15 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-03-24 20:29 ` scj
2016-03-25 12:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-26 21:04 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-03-24 19:56 ` scj
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-24 20:12 Norman Wilson
2016-03-24 20:24 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-03-24 20:36 ` scj
2016-03-24 13:36 Doug McIlroy
2016-03-23 19:28 [TUHS] PDP-7 Unix: The B compiler works Warren Toomey
2016-03-24 9:01 ` [TUHS] Teletype simulator? Warren Toomey
2016-03-24 10:21 ` Pierre DAVID
2016-03-24 11:00 ` Clem cole
2016-03-24 11:01 ` Clem cole
2016-03-24 21:39 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-25 3:18 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-03-25 3:57 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-25 20:13 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-03-24 16:37 ` Jacob Goense
2016-03-25 2:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-25 3:43 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-25 5:59 ` Jacob Goense
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