leo@sunybcs.UUCP (Leo Wilson) (07/05/86)
<MUNCH, MUNCH bug at lunch> Has anyone seen or heard of a terminal emulator that'll allow 132 columns on an ST with a monochrome monitor? ANSI compatability would be nice, too, but not required. I really don't think such a beast is available right now (I've been watching an assortment of rags & BBS's), but is anyone working on it? Any rumors that your developement house might begin work on it in the next 3 months or so? I'm thinking about doing this myself if noone with a support plan is going to, and I'll post it to the world for free if I do, but I'd rather pay for a program from a reputable software house than write anything that I know I won't have time to support... Not that I'm complaining. I've been using MOTU's PC InterComm with nothing but good results for awhile now. Good, reliable file transfer, no loss of data in interactive use, a handy utility for dialing up later, etc. However, I *need* 132 columns. Any pointers would be appreciated, including references to conversations about friends of second cousins overheard on the 2 AM bus... Thanks much, -Leo -- Leo E. Wilson(leo@buffalo.csnet) Niagara Paper Company 99 Bud-Mil Drive Buffalo, NY 14206 (716)856-5135 (0830-1700) UUCP:...![bbncca,decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax,watmath]!sunybcs!npdp1!leo
pc@ukc.ac.uk (R.P.A.Collinson) (07/09/86)
Hmm.. well the Monochrome ST has 640 pixels across the screen. 640/132=4.84 (recurring) - this is a bit little to see. In fact, I think that the 6*6 character set in the ST (106 characters) is too small to do any real work with. I used the 8*8 character set for a bit and found this tiring - this was not because of the smallness of the characters but that the aspect ratio was wrong, I think. The letters in words were too far apart. I have found that the best small set is one derived from the 8*8 set - a 7*8 set is possible to work with but only gives 91 screen characters. I add two extra lines between the characters giving me a 40 line, 91 character wide terminal. My conclusion therefore is that 132 character wide terminals are not really possible on the ST for humans not equipped with binoculars.
collinge@uvicctr.UUCP (07/13/86)
In article <1681@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> pc@ukc.ukc.ac.uk (R.P.A.Collinson) writes: >Hmm.. well the Monochrome ST has 640 pixels across the screen. >640/132=4.84 (recurring) - this is a bit little to see. In fact, I > >My conclusion therefore is that 132 character wide terminals are not >really possible on the ST for humans not equipped with binoculars. I used a home-brew 7x3 font to get 70 cols on my Apple for months of heavy work. Perfectly readable with a little work on the font and I didn't have to wear binoculars. On the ST it might be a bit teensy, however... Doug. -- Doug Collinge School of Music, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8W 2Y2 decvax!nrl-css!uvicctr!collinge decvax!uw-beaver!uvicctr!collinge ubc-vision!uvicctr!collinge