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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

  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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