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From: emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Ted H. Emigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: UNIX PC as a graphics terminal?
Message-ID: <686@ncsugn.ncsu.edu>
Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 20:30:18 EST
Article-I.D.: ncsugn.686
Posted: Sat Oct 24 20:30:18 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Oct-87 05:37:50 EST
References: <938@woton.UUCP>
Reply-To: emigh@ncsugn.UUCP (Ted H. Emigh)
Organization: Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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Keywords: 3B1 graphics terminal emulation

In article <938@woton.UUCP> riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) writes:
>Is there any communications software available for the UNIX PC which will
>make it emulate some sort of standard graphics terminal?

GSS-Terminal MAY have the functions you need.  We are the glad recipients
of one of the ATT Computer Donation Program.  We received several 7300s
and, among other software, GSS-Terminal.  It is designed to "emulate the
operation of a Tektronix 4014 graphics terminal with an Extended Graphics
Module (EGM).  In addition to 4014 functions, GSS-TERMINAL emulates certain
functions of a Tektronix 4105 color graphics terminal."

It is very (VERY) slow --the emulator will not keep up at 1200 baud even
for normal alpha/numeric sessions.

(Later in the manual, they mention: "GSS-TERMINAL does not support the
following modes available in Extended Graphics Module (EGM) operation:
o  Point plot mode
o  Incremental point plot mode
o  Special point plot mode

I have no idea how much it costs, as they were a gift to our University
(Thanks AT&T!!).

--Ted--


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Ted H. Emigh, Dept. Genetics and Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
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