Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: Re: Brain-damaged Terminal Contest Message-ID: <494@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 15:50:07 EST Article-I.D.: brl-sem.494 Posted: Thu Nov 20 15:50:07 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Nov-86 23:30:30 EST References: <1438@kitty.UUCP> <1140@mordred.cs.purdue.edu> Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab Lines: 30 Keywords: brain-damage, video display terminals, all-time worst In article <1140@mordred.cs.purdue.edu>, avr@mordred.cs.purdue.edu (Andrew V. Royappa) writes: > > Don't know about Most brain-damaged, but the BLIT (dmd 5620, AKA > Bell Labs Intelligent Terminal (I think) -- it should stand for BLAT -- > Bell Labs Annoying Terminal). I'm on a BLAT right now, and some of it's The BLIT is not the dmd 5620. The BLIT had a 68000 in it. The 5620 has a rotten Weeeee32000 in it. BLIT by the way, is not an acronym but a way of pronouncing the name of the bitblt algorithm that it uses. The only official assignment of words to the letters that I've heard of is the Bacon Lettuce and Interactive Tomato. > 1. No known termcap escape for reverse vide -- if someone knows it, > please give it to me > 2. Bad mangling of ^S/^Q with emacs (gosling's, anyway). > 3. Most infuriating feature -- if too much text is being printed, > it just hangs and beeps forever. Makes it tough to page through > large files. I usually feel like putting my fist through the > screen when this happens. > From the above, it is obvious that you are you have an old firmware 5620 which you are not running in windows mode. The thing is pointless if you aren't going to run it with the fancy software. It's just a green 70 line vt100 otherwise. Even in stand alone mode, the ^s/^q mangling is a resultg of you not wiring all the signals on your RS-232 cable (or at least jumpering them appropriately if you insist on using three wire rs-232 cables). -Ron