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So, on the other side, anyone want to build a true 'terminal emulator' that has baud-speed emulation? top just doesn't look the same without the changes trickl

by cat199 9y ago

So, on the other side, anyone want to build a true 'terminal emulator' that has baud-speed emulation? top just doesn't look the same without the changes trickling down the screen, matrix like.. Thankfully I can run GlassTTY font connected to the KVM serial console for a near approximation.. but it's still too fast :) Grew up in the VC/GUI transition era, but buying a vt220 and running it at 19200 on a used Vax taught me a Zen of command line that nothing else could... Not only did you have to think about what the command would do, but also how much text it would display, and whether you'd need to reboot the terminal after it got hosed up...

angus-g 9y ago
You could use cool-retro-term[0] for the visual side, but that doesn't support baud rate emulation either. Maybe you could pipe things through `pv` with the `-L` flag to limit speed? [0]: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
acuozzo 9y ago
> So, on the other side, anyone want to build a true 'terminal emulator' that has baud-speed emulation? So this isn't exactly the same, but I improved my Vim muscle memory considerably by running the MS-DOS version of Vim inside of DOSBox, reducing its speed of emulation to the lowest option, and finding the most efficient ways to edit files at a decent pace by making use of the best command sequences possible at any given point in time.