From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: virtual consoles / Alt-Fx
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:04:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230313170410.1493421F4F@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ema8af6b3f-4d4f-4f54-89de-2a1365708e31@ad99ed46.com>
Hi,
Ron wrote:
> The AIX for the PS/2 had a thing called the HFT which allowed you to
> switch the VGA head between different virtual screens long before
> LINUX came along.
AIX 3.2.5 on the POWER RS/6000 still had the HFT, High Function
Terminal. /dev/hft0 IIRC. It had a framebuffer which was extremely
slow when used as a TTY; one could follow the old text rippling up the
screen to make way for the new line at the bottom. Interrupting a
cat(1) didn't cut the wait for the HFT to catch up with what cat had
already written; seconds passed.
Given ‘startx’ was the main command entered this was only a pain when
debugging something outside of X Windows.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-13 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-13 15:12 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-03-13 15:24 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2023-03-13 15:27 ` Clem Cole
2023-03-13 16:17 ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-13 15:41 ` Warner Losh
2023-03-13 15:48 ` KenUnix
2023-03-13 15:48 ` Clem Cole
2023-03-13 16:14 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-13 17:26 ` Miod Vallat
2023-03-13 20:35 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-14 16:42 ` Derek Fawcus via TUHS
2023-03-14 22:46 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-03-15 4:26 ` Heinz Lycklama
2023-03-13 15:27 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-13 15:30 ` Warner Losh
2023-03-14 3:27 ` Rik Schneider
2023-03-13 15:33 ` Ron Natalie
2023-03-13 15:45 ` Heinz Lycklama
2023-03-13 17:04 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2023-03-13 15:49 ` Brad Spencer
2023-03-17 8:14 ` Marc Donner
2023-03-14 3:33 Rudi Blom
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