Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote:
> I wonder what a "virtual terminal" is?
I'm thinking that the "virtual terminals" are the workspaces.
> Do you remember how they moved text between windows? Is it a cut and
> paste operation like MS Windows?
Um, no. As I recall it used the logging function. You set up the
"to" device to be a workspace and then turn on log top or log bottom.
E.g. if you turned on log bottom, then as each line was received
it would be copied (by the terminal) over to the workspace set as
"to" device, and if that workspace is attached to the other datacomm port
then the line gets sent out that port.
So I don't think you can cut-and-paste very easily, but you can set
the thing up to do simple data logging.
-Frank McConnell
>>Is it some kind of "Super CGA" that wasn't really supported by anyo
> >
> > I know some game companies "tweaked" certain memory registers or so
> > so that standard CGA could do 320x200x16 colors, but as far as I'm
>
> I never heard of 320 x 200 x 16 for the CGA - I seem to remember 160
> 200 x 16 - surely it would not have had the memory for the other?
I have an ATI Graphics Solution board that does:
40x25 character
80x25 character
320x200 color graphics
640x200 color/graphics
600/200 b/w modes
plantronics color/graphics
ati 640x200x16 color graphics
640x200x4 color
320x200x16 color
132x25 color text mode
IBM mono (MDA)
Hercules graphics mode
132x25 mono
132x44 mono
Off hand the 6845 could likely be programmed for other more odd modes.
Allison
<You talked about a system where the bus had to be arbitrated, that
<wouldn't necessarily be needed if you went through SCSI, would it...
I've done it with shared memory, SCSI, and most buses. SCSI worked well
with AmproLBs. the physical medium does not determine what networking
protocal is or can be used only the physical layer. So IP over scsi
is doable as is DECNET in shared memory or simple async serial lines
(DDCMP).
Allison
At 08:53 PM 2/2/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I think John's on to something here. How about connect together a
>S-100, EEEI-696, EISA, MCI, PCI, VME and Multibus plane and create a
>monitor that will allow CPU and memory on each system running
>concurrently with mix and match boards as you like (or have) running
>Concurrent CPM?
>
>To play PONG on.....
Pong? Pong? At least have it run Spacewar, for pete's sake!
-John Higginbotham-
-limbo.netpath.net-
> Checked on usenet, now I remember why I didn't go there at first:
> --I am not interested in Making $$$$$
> --I DONT NEED PASSWORD FOR SEX SITES
> --I have nothing to sell and I don't want to buy anything.
> I better try the mailing list.
The worst part is, rgvc is considered pretty high-signal these days.
It's been a bad week, though.
BTW, I think I just gave you the list address, rather than the list
request address. At least, I got your subscribe message, and I suspect
the rest of the list did too. You might want to try
classic-videogames-request(a)moose.webworks.ca for the actual subscribe
request.
Sorry about that,
--
Ben Coakley http://www.math.grin.edu/~coakley coakley(a)ac.grin.edu
Station Manager, KDIC 88.5 FM CBEL: Xavier OH
Wow, this is global. -Mtn Goats
At 07:26 AM 1/31/98 +0300, you wrote:
>Actually, I was wondering what the heck Microsloth was thinking when they
>made it 8 characters. And, the fact that in the next 5 FULL RELEASES
If I'm not mistaken, the 8.3 convention comes from (at least) CP/M.
Possibly from some other OpSys before that as well. When you've got 16K of
memory, you probably don't want to waste 30 bytes when 8 will do just as well.
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An even better stupid bus trick would be to connect all those bus types
together, and have any card on any bus recognized by any computer. (But
don't look at me, I'm just an idea man!)
At 04:20 PM 2/2/98, you wrote:
>It would be a LOT easier to connect them via a null-modem or just use
>LapLink or something similar (Fast Lynx is my preference).
>
> Joe
>
>
>At 11:47 AM 2/2/98 PST, you wrote:
>>Could I attach two PC motherboards (ISA? PS/2? PCI? EISA? NuBUS?
>>Others?) together via a ribbon cable by the bus connectors and then
>>transfer data among them, of course having written the approporiate
>>drivers?
>>
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-John Higginbotham-
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>To the original poster - you may have better luck asking on the classic
>videogames mailing list (classic-videogames(a)moose.webworks.ca) or if you
>have usenet access, on rec.games.video.classic.
Checked on usenet, now I remember why I didn't go there at first:
--I am not interested in Making $$$$$
--I DONT NEED PASSWORD FOR SEX SITES
--I have nothing to sell and I don't want to buy anything.
I better try the mailing list.
--
Ben Coakley http://www.math.grin.edu/~coakley
coakley(a)ac.grin.edu
Station Manager, KDIC 88.5 FM CBEL: Xavier
OH
Wow, this is global. -Mtn
Goats