From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:23:55 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Teletype simulator?
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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