From: gdmr@inf.ed.ac.uk (George Ross)
Subject: [TUHS] Teletype simulator?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:40:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201603241440.u2OEeO9p012595@farg.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:19:26 -0400." <20160324131926.41FF518C0ED@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
> 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.)
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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 [this message]
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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