7 Jan
2023
7 Jan
'23
6:13 p.m.
On 1/7/23 1:04 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
Maybe the other way around. I don't really know
what the timeline
was, but it seems to me maybe soft fonts came first, with the VT220.
The VT240 had sixel graphics, right? But I'm guessing it came later.
As would the VT340.
ACK
Probably. I had the good fortune to meet the person
who first added
sixel graphics to XTerm, and he mentioned it is on his to-do list.
Nice!
It would also be interesting to make a faithful VT220
emulator that
runs the original ROMs.
Something to look into.
Oh, isn't this you?
https://twitter.com/DrScriptt/status/1187958760901414913
Yes, that's me.
I took your statement to be that I knew / had seen your bird soft font
shape. I had not. I have not done anything with soft fonts.
Yes, I have done more than the average bear with Sixel and ReGIS.
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Grant. . . .
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