david (04/19/83)
The April 21 issue of Electronics contains an article (pg. 170) on the Teletype 5620 bit-mapped terminal (aka BLIT). It contains a Bellmac 32 and 256K of RAM and lists for $6115; deliveries are to begin in the fourth quarter. The green phosphor CRT is 8 (wide) x 10 1/4 (high) inches and 800 x 1024 pixels (100 pixels/inch). According to the article, a software support package (which includes "a UNIX-like operating system written specifically for the 5620, a screen formatter and multiplexing software that allows the unit to appear to the system to be more than one terminal") will be available from Western Electric (not AT&T??), and runs under System V. David Brown, Varian