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xterm has a vector graphics terminal emulator, although I've never seen any application that uses it. https://jirkasnotes.wordpress.com/2019/07/17/xterm-does-g

• emmanueloga_ 4y ago
  Pretty fascinating, I found the tip of the iceberg on XTerm's src [0] but it's kinda table driven so hard to tell what's going on :-). I just wanted to see exactly how much code was there in XTerm to support hardware that was popular between the 70s and early 80s.. [1] 0: https://github.com/joejulian/xterm/blob/defc6dd5684a12dc8e56cb6973ef973e7a32caa3/main.c#L2861-L2872 https://github.com/joejulian/xterm/blob/defc6dd5684a12dc8e56... 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4010
• classichasclass 4y ago
  Ages and ages ago I wrote a 'ppmtotek' program that would display raster graphics on terminal emulators with Tek 4014 graphics. It worked somewhat but depended on quirks of the specific terminal emulator. I should dust it off anyway.