Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!hurf From: hurf@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon) Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: Re: DMD 5620s Message-ID: <1617@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 09:38:56 EST Article-I.D.: batcompu.1617 Posted: Tue Dec 2 09:38:56 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Dec-86 06:24:45 EST References: <1438@kitty.UUCP> <1140@mordred.cs.purdue.edu> Reply-To: hurf@batcomputer.UUCP (Hurf Sheldon) Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 36 In article <5404@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes: ... >>Another problem with the 5620 has been lack of software. Rob Pike >>demonstrated features of the Blit software at the Santa Monica Usenix >>back in 1982 which I still haven't seen on a 5620. ... or information about what's available > >Dave Prosser's "myx" package (available rather inexpensively through >the AT&T UNIX System Toolchest) has most of those features. ... is there more? >... the user interaction when it needs it. I have seen some amazing user >interfaces, and I'm expecting to develop yet another in a few weeks. ... will you share it? >People who use the default terminal emulator in a DMD layer to run >something like EMACS on the host computer are not exploiting the DMD's >capabilities very well. ... maybe so but it does work nicely - can it run emacs locally? Say - do you know how to get a larger font in the tek4010 window? We have several 3b2/dmd systems - We are ignorant of the possibilities & would much appreciate any helpful suggestions & software. I was excited when I realized we had the real magilla blit that A.K. Dewdney wrote of but where is a standard reference on what it can do & how to do it? Hurf Sheldon Arpa.css: hurf@ionvax.tn.cornell.edu Lab of Plasma Studies 369 Upson Hall phone: 607 255 7267 Cornell University Ithaca, N.Y. 14853