FCTY7284@RYERSON.BITNET (04/23/86)
========================================================================= >I just read on att.blit that the University of Toronto has developed >and is currently using a 5620(blit) terminal emulator in a ROM >cartridge for the 520ST (mono). Does anyone know if this is true? >If this is cartridge exists I would like to buy one and I'm sure a >lot of other people would too. Can anybody out there confirm or deny >this??? I think a product like this would be a great boost to ST >sales, I hope it makes it to the market place. R.T. Bradstrum This is true: Dave Galloway at the U of Toronto Computer Science Research Centre is the person to talk to. I saw a demo of the BLIT emulation: the ST was hooked up to a VAX system by a 9600 baud line and was running a number of windows in a multiplexed manner. It looked like a small SUN worksation, very smooth. The snag in marketing this thing is that AT&T would have to licence it, since it was a port of existing software. The original BLIT was $10,000 (!) so don't get your hopes up. Peter Hiscocks
halloran@unirot.UUCP (Bob Halloran) (04/24/86)
In article <8604230718.AA01165@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> FCTY7284@RYERSON.BITNET writes: >========================================================================= >>I just read on att.blit that the University of Toronto has developed >>and is currently using a 5620(blit) terminal emulator in a ROM >>cartridge for the 520ST (mono). Does anyone know if this is true? >> >> R.T. Bradstrum >This is true: Dave Galloway at the U of Toronto Computer Science >Research Centre is the person to talk to. I saw a demo of the >BLIT emulation: the ST was hooked up to a VAX system by a 9600 >baud line and was running a number of windows in a multiplexed >manner. It looked like a small SUN worksation, very smooth. >The snag in marketing this thing is that AT&T would have to licence >it, since it was a port of existing software. The original BLIT >was $10,000 (!) so don't get your hopes up. >Peter Hiscocks The advantage may be this: the BLIT was a 68K-based bitmap tube built for Bell Labs internal use. The Teletype 5620, the commercially available unit, is NOT a 68K-based system (WE32000?). So the BLIT support software may be seen as having so little commercial value that AT&T may well license it for some reasonable fee. Anyone at Guilford Center listening? (please?) Robert Halloran, Consultant ============================================================================= UUCP: ..topaz!caip!unirot!halloran ATTMail: RHALLORAN USPS: 19 Culver Ct, Old Bridge NJ 08857 Ph: (201) 251-7514 Disclaimer: Any opinions are due solely to line noise. Quote: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..." -- Hunter Thompson