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Can't talk about the rest, but some spelunking led me to finding that TV was "legacy" component in later Genera options, working properly only on the main conso

by p_l 2y ago

Can't talk about the rest, but some spelunking led me to finding that TV was "legacy" component in later Genera options, working properly only on the main console and, due to significant emulation work, on MacIvory through RPC to host Mac. DW/CLIM treated TV as one possible driver, if not sidestepped it, the problem was that some software (iirc mainly related to some S-Graphics products) had some hardcoded TV dependencies from earlier versions - it's mentioned as part of the porting plans for OpenGenera, because OpenGenera has no working TV subsystem at all, because TV didn't work over X11.

lispm 2y ago
Right, Open Genera uses ONLY an X11 console, and thus requires TCP/IP. But that was the case on other machines, too. The embedded UX400/1200 machines and the headless NXP1000 use an X11 console, too. Lots of TV software does not run on these machines, because they don't have a framebuffer.