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From: "Seth Morabito" <web@loomcom.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] AT&T / Teletype DMD 5620 Emulator
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:20:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4fe5893-844a-4726-90f0-6946f580462a@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201901090912.x099CITB027909@freefriends.org>

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, at 1:12 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> This is pretty cool. Can you post links for this and the 3B2 emulator?

Hello Arnold,

Absolutely, I'd be happy to.

The 3B2 emulator is described in more detail here:

-  https://loomcom.com/3b2/emulator.html

The DMD 5620 emulator is documented here:

-  https://loomcom.com/3b2/dmd5620_emulator.html

> I had one for a few years at Georgia Tech and I *loved* the keyboard.
> It was a huge productivity boost being able to have multiple windows.
> 
> We used them connected to our Vax 11/780 with 4 Meg of memory running
> 4.[12] BSD (don't remember which) and having multiple DMD 5620s
> with multiple windows open on each drove the poor vax to its knees...

I can imagine! The multiplexing code running on the host could get pretty expensive pretty fast, especially with multiple layers per terminal.
-- 
  Seth Morabito
  Poulsbo, WA
  web@loomcom.com

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-11 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-04 21:07 Seth J. Morabito
2019-01-04 21:50 ` Clem Cole
2019-01-05  6:04 ` Noel Hunt
2019-01-11 22:16   ` Seth Morabito
2019-01-09  9:12 ` arnold
2019-01-11 22:20   ` Seth Morabito [this message]
2019-01-09  9:35 ` SPC
2019-01-09 14:54 ` Julius Schmidt
2019-01-11 22:26   ` Seth Morabito

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