Whoops; I accidentally sent this message to only Mr. Koning. I meant to send this to the entire group as it is has some pretty interesting stuff.
Regards, Christian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <captainkirk...@gmail.com> Date: 11 December 2015 at 04:13 Subject: Re: [Simh] Graphics Terminals and Graphic System Phototypesetters To: Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> On 10 December 2015 at 12:14, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > [...[ For CRT type phototypesetters, the character and font repertoire is > generally fixed for a given installation, but it would vary from one > installation to the next. [...] > That might be the case for most CRT based phototypesetters, but may I direct the groups attention to: <http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/> (Specifically to this YouTube video linked on that page: <https://youtu.be/CVxeuwlvf8w>) The page, and papers/videos thereon discuss the "jailbreaking" (to use the modern term) of the Linotron 202 phototypesetter at Bell Labs by Joe Condon, Brian Kernighan, and Ken Thompson in 1979. (What does all this have to do with SIMH? Well, the Linotron 202 was controlled by a PDP-11 running UNIX.) Regards, Christian -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
