From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832)
Subject: [TUHS] Teletype simulator?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:29:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1458833340.3543303.558681746.1F57BB82@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201603241440.u2OEeO9p012595@farg.inf.ed.ac.uk>
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 10:40, George Ross wrote:
> > 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.
>
> And don't forget that carriage-return takes longer than printing
> individual
> characters, so you need to send CR LF to give it time to get back to the
> first column while it's feeding a line. Or CR CR LF just in case.
>
> (Or was that the Olivetti terminal? Or the DECwriter? One of those
> mechanical things anyway.)
Sending CR LF is independent of the CR delay requirements - the kernel
has options for several kinds of CR delays, IIRC at least one of which
is in proportion to the column you're returning from.
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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
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 [this message]
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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