31 Jan
2007
31 Jan
'07
12:30 p.m.
Richard wrote:
In article <200701311853.l0VIrZBF026966 at
mwave.heeltoe.com>,
Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> writes:
As described in another thread by Al, the VS60 was a VT48 display subsystem
using a local 11/34 processor. The VT48 display was BIG (20" or so diameter)
and was a vector/stroke display processor with a light pen interface and
button box. Too many lines on your schematic and it would start to flicker.
As I used it for SUDS at DEC, we ran the VS60 back to a TOPS-10 system via
dedicated high speed serial lines (KMC11 IIRC). The VS60 (11/34 + VT48) ran
a custom program that implemented the SUDS display subsystem. SUDS actually
ran on the PDP-10 (a KL10 running TOPS-10 v7.xx); the VS60 was just a big
display terminal.
I don't know that I ever heard what the 'S' in 'S.Foonly' was supposed
to
stand for ... maybe SUDS or Stanford, I guess.
And, if I did have one, has anyone written an
emulator for a VS60?
would it be hard?
From what I can tell it was driven by a serial
port and in looking
around I thought I saw docs describing the protocol, so if you
can get
something that generates the chatter you could stick something on the
other end of that serial line and emulate the output.
Most stuff from that era also talks Tektronix 4010 and everything
emulates that, whether its physical terminals or terminal emulators.