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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] First CRT terminal on Unix?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 08:50:39 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711230847560.780@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1511368433.1204138.1181170712.5C35EA76@webmail.messagingengine.com>

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Random832 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.

You don't want to know about the VT-05.  Trust me on this.

(It was the console for the "larger" PDP-11/40s at UNSW, because they were 
supposed to be running RSX-11D; we sneaked in Unix V6 and it stayed.)

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-22 21:50 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]

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