15 Mar
2007
15 Mar
'07
9:21 a.m.
Richard wrote:
In article <45F86F35.5080107 at yahoo.co.uk>,
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
That's what I was wondering. Although I suppose that providing they have a
design that can be coaxed into the same architecture as a typical terminal,
then it doesn't matter as a box can be drawn around the bit that "looks"
like
a CPU.
Actually, yes, I was thinking along the lines of
something which actually mad
e
use of the original firmware. That quite possible
isn't practical though as
presumably at least some vendors did something really oddball rather than
using an off the shelf CPU :)
The weirder terminals don't use a CPU at all. They use SSI/MSI TTL
logic.