From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Joseph Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>
Cc: segaloco <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: DMD 5620 simulator
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:35:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220913233513.GI1684@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a61aa4e6-7cd4-4ce9-8145-82b36fe99dc1@www.fastmail.com>
Have you ever run a BLIT? It's basically a windowing system over a
serial line except the protocol is really smart, it knows that the
terminal knows how to do a bunch of stuff.
In my opinion, the best serial line terminal ever built.
On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 03:29:39PM -0700, Joseph Holsten wrote:
> I was wondering why you???d pick this term of all historical terms to emulate. Now I have a terrible urge to try my hand at an ADM-3A.
>
> Which just reminds me of this teletype 33 ad: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teletype_Model_33_Terminal_June_1974.jpg
>
> --
> josephholsten.com
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022, at 16:25, Seth Morabito wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've recently been improving the AT&T/Teletype DMD 5620 simulator I
> > wrote a few years ago. It can now run either the 8;7;3 or 8;7;5
> > firmware. It also now supports executing a local shell or connecting
> > directly to a physical or virtual tty device. It runs natively on Linux
> > or macOS with X11 or Wayland, but I would love help creating a Windows
> > version if you're a Windows programmer (I am an occasional Windows
> > user, but I am not at all knowledgeable about Windows programming).
> >
> > Full details are available here: https://loomcom.com/3b2/dmd5620_emulator.html
> >
> > The source code is here: https://github.com/sethm/dmd_gtk
> >
> > Many thanks go to my friend Sark (@crtdude on Twitter) for tracking
> > down the 8;7;3 firmware and dumping it for me. I'd also like to thank
> > Mike Haertel for helping find bugs, providing feedback, and inspiring
> > me to get it working with Research Unix in addition to SVR3.
> >
> > Feedback, bug reports, and pull requests are all welcome!
> >
> > -Seth
> > --
> > Seth Morabito
> > Poulsbo, WA
> > web@loomcom.com
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Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-13 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-12 23:25 [TUHS] " Seth Morabito
2022-09-13 1:53 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-09-13 1:58 ` Rob Pike
2022-09-13 2:12 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-13 13:01 ` Clem Cole
2022-09-14 0:23 ` Rob Pike
2022-09-14 0:33 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-14 0:43 ` Rich Salz
2022-09-13 19:21 ` Paul Guertin
2022-09-13 22:29 ` Joseph Holsten
2022-09-13 23:35 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2022-09-14 3:55 ` Joseph Holsten
2022-09-14 16:09 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-09-14 0:44 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-09-14 0:47 ` joe mcguckin
2022-09-14 3:10 ` Seth Morabito
2022-09-14 3:40 ` Warner Losh
2022-09-14 7:48 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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