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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] CR delay for VT05
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:23:41 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2007300919210.76447@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200719233207.BB69D2D9E6DD@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk>

On Mon, 20 Jul 2020, Richard Tobin wrote:

> Why would the VT05 (a VDU) need a delay for carriage return? I can just 
> about imagine that it might need one for linefeed if it shifted the 
> characters in memory.

Given that the VT05 (shudder!) is broken in so many others ways e.g. 20x72 
screen, sends upper-case only unless you flip an internal switch, etc, I'm 
not surprised that it would also need a CR delay...

Primitive firmware?

-- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-29 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-19 23:32 Richard Tobin
2020-07-20  4:28 ` Random832
2020-07-29 23:23 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2020-07-30  0:56   ` Clem Cole
2020-07-30 16:42   ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-12  2:09     ` Dave Horsfall

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