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How is this front page? This is extremely old

• ChuckMcM 13y ago
  Presumably it is new to user 'luu' It makes me sad though, as cool as it is, because I see this bit map screen pretending to be a terminal and using font points to pretending to draw graphics. How the heck does that happen? I get the whole "xterm is compatible with terminals" which was a big deal when I was new to programming but this is the freakin' 21st century and our interactive text widget can't just do graphics? Somebody shoot xterm in the head and replace it with a VT340 emulator not a stupid VT100 emulator. Please.
  • RamiK 13y ago
    A couple of things need to happen in the kernel first before the VT100 could be deprecated safely in favor of the later VTs. It all starts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmscon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmscon
    • ChuckMcM 13y ago
      Here is the thing, Kmscon would work just fine. Because the VT340 works perfectly well as a VT100 terminal. But when you want to do graphics on it, you send it ReGIS commands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS) and it draws lines and shapes and stuff like that. Hell even XTERM has a Tek4010 mode which is poorly supported at best. But ReGIS support, especially now that all the patents are expired, would be perfectly fine for this sort of thing.
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