romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang) (08/19/87)
The names have been removed to protect the innocent, and who knows what might be mythical at this point? Windows 3 6 6 7 Display 11.2 x 8.4" 11.2 x 8.4 11.3 8.5 x 11 Landscape Landscape Square Portrait Amber Amber Amber P39 Green Characters 80 x 27 80 x 27 85 x 64 88 x 70 132 x 27 113 x 73 146 x 73 Pixels - 656 x 480 1024 x 1024 800 x 1024 Mouse - Option Standard Standard Processor 68000 68000 68000 WE32100 Memory - 128KB 640KB 256KB Emulations AT&T 4410 AT&T 4410 AT&T 5620 Native AT&T 513C Tek 4014 Tek 4014 Tek 4014 DEC VT220 GSS CGI GSS CGI HP 2621
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (08/20/87)
In article <645@pyrnj.uucp> romain@pyrnj.UUCP (Romain Kang) writes: >The names have been removed to protect the innocent, and who knows what >might be mythical at this point? Well, since all but one of these have already been announced, and ALL of them have been demonstrated at least in prototype form at shows, let's put the names back and then correct the posting. ("?" means I don't have the specific information memorized; Romain's information for those items may well be correct.) Name 615 620 630 5620 >Windows 3 6 6 7 Windows ? ? 7 6 plus local processes >Characters 80 x 27 80 x 27 85 x 64 88 x 70 > 132 x 27 113 x 73 > 146 x 73 Characters ? ? 80 x 60 88 x 70 ? ? "dumb" terminal mode given; actual size depends on layer dimensions and on (possibly downloaded) font >Processor 68000 68000 68000 WE32100 Processor ? ? 68010, I think WE32001 or WE32100 (old) (new) Note: no floating-point processor >Memory - 128KB 640KB 256KB Memory ? ? 640Kb 256Kb 1024Kb optional memory used for many purposes, including scroll buffers, fonts, downloaded code and data, ... >Emulations AT&T 4410 AT&T 4410 AT&T 5620 Native > AT&T 513C Tek 4014 Tek 4014 Tek 4014 > DEC VT220 GSS CGI GSS CGI HP 2621 ? ? NOT 5620! tek4014 tek4014, hp2621, other terminal emulations available through downloaded layer processes. 630 downloaded applications practically source-compatible with 5620 (not binary compatible). CORE, GKS, X-windows support is POSSIBLE (not necessarily available), as are a variety of specialized interactive interfaces. All four terminals support the "layers" protocol that is now supplied with UNIX System V (generally in a "windowing utilities" package). Layers support for a variety of BSD-based systems is also available from various sources including BRL. The 615 is character-only; the 620 supports graphics but not bitmap programs; the 630 and 5620 support bitmap programming via downloaded layer control programs. The latter are the commercial forms of Rob Pike's "Blit" that has been described in various UNIX and graphics literature. The 5620 was also featured in the September 1985 Scientific American "Computer Recreations" column. (I have re-implemented "crabs" for the 5620, and someone else then ported it, with many changes, to Suns. If there is enough interest I could post my version.) I'm not sure what the intended market for the 615 is; the 620 seems like a nice general-purpose terminal; the 630 is not yet an announced product but seems like a worthy successor to the 5620. BRL has lots of 5620s and some of us like them a lot, especially augmented by Dave Prosser's "myx" environment available from the AT&T UNIX System ToolChest. (The 630 effectively has "myx"'s features built in.) If you're considering these bit-map terminal models, be sure to get the necessary support software for the host systems, as they are not stand-alone (Sun-like) workstations but rather depend on a host UNIX system with the special layers support environment for multi- window operation. This approach (vs. Sun's) has both advantages and drawbacks; let's not get into a flame war about it.