barbee@sdcsvax.UUCP (Don) (08/08/83)
I am in the market for a really nice terminal and I am currently
looking at the televidio 970. I like the ergonometric design, but
it only comes in a green screen; I would like to have an amber screen.
It also has protected regions, but I would like more then just horizontal
protected windows. I am sure that many of you have heard of the idea
of giving a process a window to work in. This way you can keep the
output of one process from corrupting the output of another. On the
970 you can only allocate horizontal bands across the screen. It
would be really nice if you could define an arbitary rectangle for the
process to work in.
I once worked on a ultra high speed terminal going at ~500K baud.
Using a screen oriented editor on this was like a dream come true. It
could redraw the screen sooooo fast that you could blink and miss the
fact that anything had happened.
I am getting the terminal for a S100 based computer. I'd rather have
a separate keyboard/monitor/driver system, but so far I have not seen a nice
keyboard, like the 970 has, by itself anyware on the open market.
a person who loves egg in his beer!
-- Don Coleman
USENET: { philabs, ucbvax }!sdcsvax!barbeegumby@mit-eddie.UUCP (David Vinayak Wallace) (08/09/83)
If you're getting it for an S-100-based system, why not get a memory-mapped video card? Then you can have screen-updates at memory speed, and you can set up windows whatever way you want.