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prediction: in a few weeks somebody will rediscover the existence of tektronix emulation on xterm and the community will go crazy about it
by enriquto 8y ago
prediction: in a few weeks somebody will rediscover the existence of tektronix emulation on xterm and the community will go crazy about it
- tyingq 8y agoI've played with it. Cool, but it is monochrome and font challenged. Neat for projecting a line map or similar for a retro-futurey look. Some 3270 terminals also support vector graphics. I don't remember if x3270 implemented them.
- rbanffy 8y agoI saw some impressive renderings on an IBM 3279. Sadly, it was never on my desk. And you'd have to translate the text from ASCII to EBCDIC.
- mindcrime 8y agoThat's not necessarily a bad thing though. Sometimes it's good to revisit some (seemingly) "forgotten" technologies which still have a lot of potential.
- enriquto 8y ago> That's not necessarily a bad thing though. I did not say it ironically! Tektronix is super-cool! It could be could be realistically rendered as sgv, and easily extended to add colors and stuff.
- mangecoeur 8y ago... and then proceed to re-invent VNC and RDP from first principles
- ChuckMcM 8y agoI was going to say reinvent X11 and then X terminals but the same applies.
- danmg 8y agomlterm's emulation of it is better.
- imhoguy 8y agohttps://github.com/saitoha/xserver-SIXEL https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-SIXEL I haven't tried that but issues tell that even mouse works with Firefox in terminal.
- NikkiA 8y agoI'm pretty sure I saw a terminal emulator with ReGIS emulation out there, I'm surprised that's not become the fad.