Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] EvStack - 2.3.x?

[Dominik K. <dom...@un...>]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:13:00AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> I looked over your patch. It nice to see better VT102 emulation. I thought
> you where the one that posted about splitting the terminal emulation from

I mentioned that as my goal in the message posted to lkml.  So you are not
far of the mark. ;-)

> the console code. You could do things like HP console emulation etc. Thats
> a possible idea. 

All we need to do is to pull the necessary info out of *BSD's pcvt.  And
there are other interesting variants, like Siemens (for those BS2000 folks)
or even 5250 or 3270 (argh!). I have a VT420 reference manual at hand and
can loan VT340 programmers manual if need should be (imagine: REGIS or
SIXEL graphics on the console).  There is also the TEK4xxx emulation in
xterm (that would scrap the need for svgalib to run gnuplot on the console)

So there are lots of possibilities and if we offer a clean DDI to add
additional emulations besides the standard "linux" brand, we might see
them happen: people code all sorts of odd stuff if left alone with a
computer and some legacy hardware/software ;-)

Dominik
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