From: henry.r.bent@gmail.com (Henry Bent)
Subject: [TUHS] First CRT terminal on Unix?
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 12:55:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBfx+CevQVBgoE0uTZgKP3xO1SWwRTfto3M-CM40nRcB9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On 22 November 2017 at 11:42, Ben Greenfield via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:
>
>
> > On Nov 22, 2017, at 11:33 AM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > As far as I know (and I've gone looking for this specifically, oddly
> > enough, out of idle curiosity), no version of termcap/terminfo has
> > contained a description for the VT05.
>
>
> For those who are reading about this as history and didn’t live it this
> experience this statement needs more background.
>
> I will look up the VT05, but hope that you may add some to color as to
> this stands out.
>
In short: the VT05 was DEC's first video terminal, from the early '70s, and
would have presumably been in use at some installations that used early
Unix. My guess - and this is entirely a guess - is that it had been
entirely supplanted by the VT52 and friends by the time Unix gained
widespread popularity.
There is a pretty good overview of the VT05 at
https://vt100.net/dec/vt05.html and
http://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/DEC_VT05 has a plethora of
pictures.
I have no idea why there are no termcap/terminfo entries for the VT05.
stty in BSD as early as 2.79 understands "vt05" as a settings argument, but
it's not clear to me what you would use for $TERM.
-Henry
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-22 10:43 Nigel Williams
2017-11-22 12:22 ` Robert Diamond
2017-11-22 13:26 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-22 13:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-22 14:18 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-22 16:33 ` Random832
2017-11-22 16:42 ` Ben Greenfield
2017-11-22 17:15 ` Random832
2017-11-22 17:55 ` Henry Bent [this message]
2017-11-22 19:39 ` Random832
2017-11-22 19:40 ` Nigel Williams
2017-11-22 19:48 ` Nigel Williams
2017-11-22 21:33 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-11-22 21:54 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-23 19:33 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-23 19:49 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-24 1:42 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-22 22:14 ` Random832
2017-11-22 20:07 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-22 21:50 ` Dave Horsfall
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