On 12/08/2016 10:05 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Or various other terminal emulators tha are mostly ANSI and Unicode > aware... > > And the Linux console...
True. > > It's interesting to note that the "real" xterm terminal emulator will > still emulate a Tektronix storage-scope graphics terminal (a terminal > that actually _implemented_ vector drawing rather than emulating it > with a raster-scanned array of pixels). Yeah I played around with that for fun a few months ago. The reason I did was that someone on a forum was complaining about a problem with that mode and I had never heard of it before! > But, I know of plenty of people that still use real serial terminals > connected via serial ports. Until very recently, one of my customers > had a group of techs that bought used Wyse 50 (green monochrome CRT) > serial terminals off e-bay, Craigsist, or wherever and refurbished > them in-house so that they could be sent out to the field for > installation (as retail POS terminals). Last time I heard, they were > goint to switch to flat-screen "thin-clients". I got a chance to play > with one of those, and it was an industrial Single-board-PC and LCD > monitor built into a single unit running Windows. It was configured > to boot up and run a Wyse-50 terminal emulator -- and connect to the > "real" computer via an RS-232C serial port. :) Very interesting. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
