On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 01:03:38AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 10:02:29PM +0200, Rafi Cohen wrote:
> > I'm using a braile display to interact with the computers.
> 
> 
>   What is a braille display? I mean, how it looks, how the user 
> interacts with it, how does it cope with something other then letters?
> How does it refreshes the display? What about colors?

One line at a time, from a buffer of the whole screen. 

>   I didn't google for that information. Perhaps you can provide some
> good links about such displays.
>   In particular, can't such a display automatically represent ASCII
> characters, without the need for a special driver?

http://haifux.org/lectures/112/ will give you some minimal background.

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