AT&T 5620 (Blit/DMD) software
Al Kossow
aek at bitsavers.org
Sun May 29 10:18:13 CDT 2016
"Shattered" has been working on this. I assume you know about his SIMH simulator
and how he's getting frustrated with nothing being available.
http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=105737&Searchpage=1&Main=7894&Words=shattered&Search=true#Post105737
On 5/28/16 2:15 PM, Seth Morabito wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I recently picked up an AT&T 5620 terminal, the WE32K version of the
> Blit, and I've been tracking down software to run on my 3B2.
>
> It looks like there are two separate packages which provide the
> 'layers' windowing system:
>
> 1. A package named "AT&T Windowing Utilities", on one floppy disk.
>
> 2. A package named "DMD Core Utilities 2.0", on a set of three floppy
> disks.
>
> The DMD Core Utilities set comes with a lot of demos and source code.
> It installs 'layers' as /usr/dmd/bin/layers.
>
> The one-disk AT&T Windowing Utilities has no demos, and installs
> 'layers' as /usr/bin/layers.
>
> Can anyone elaborate on the difference between these two? Are
> they both appropriate to use with the 5620, and should I favor
> the DMD Core Utilities over the AT&T Windowing Utilities? Or
> are they both needed?
>
> Confused and lacking documentation,
>
> -Seth
>
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