25 Jan
2007
25 Jan
'07
1:52 a.m.
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 17:50 -0800, Glen Slick wrote:
On 1/11/07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
wrote:
The mid-to-late-eighties Tandberg TDV-1200 terminal had that
possibility, I believe, though it has never been documented. One
interesting feature to this terminal is that with compatible machines,
it could enter something like a "DMA" mode which would make it *very*
fast, even for line-art grpahics. (It was very commonly used in
newspapers, with the (fairly good) NOTIS/NORTEXT system.)
It was also popular with a rather interesting Norwegian UNIX machine
about which I know far too little, called the IN4200 but affectionally
nicknamed the "Goat cheese". I kid you not. I guess it's far catchier in
Norwegian... :)
-Tore :)
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at
sydex.com> writes:
How common is that in vintage terminals? When I wrote the firmware for the Fortune Systems
text terminal, I
added a special escape sequence that would allow one to load a
program into RAM via the host and execute it.
Cool! Another nice little tidbit
to look for! :-)