8 Mar
2007
8 Mar
'07
4:07 p.m.
On 3/8/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
I wrote:
Ah, yes... I forgot about the keypad... that's much more of an
emulation issue for most users than double-high/double-wide. EDT,
WPS, etc... all heavily dependent on specific keys for specific
functions.
Using a modern keyboard with a dumb terminal emulated in modern
hardware (i.e. - microcontroller or FPGA), might prove to be
interesting, since real VT100 keyboards are somewhat difficult to
find, compared to, say, LK201s, which should still be relatively
plentiful (and not difficult to interface to).
-ethan
For
VT100-compatible work, it's not _too_ hard to set up an emulation
environment that handles 99% of what's thrown at it... If you need
double-high/double-wide or flashing chars, etc., it's harder...
Actually the Double-Height/Double Width is one of my main problems, flashing
less so. IIRC, once I upgrade to Mac OS X 10.4.8 (I'm on 10.3.9), this will
be at least partially taken care of. This isn't as much of a show stopper
for me though as the application keypad not working right. I make heavy use
of the keypad, and can't live without it. I would like to be able to use
all of the function keys.