[comp.terminals] display terminals

nkg1@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Neeraj K. Gupta) (07/15/87)

I have been trying to study the architecture of display terminals.
Some of the Issues that I want to study are:

What factors determine the resolution ( dots/inch ) on the display ?
How are characters displayed on the screen ? ( Intelligent vs Dumb terminals)
		Calculating the position of the cursor,
		processing any special chars/escape sequences before display,
What determines the size of the dot-matrix for each character ? ( How to change it)
If I were to assemble a terminal what is required ?
			A sort of handbook for terminals.


I would appreciate if  someone could give some sources for the information.


Neeraj