modern serial terminal

[David Griffith]

I'm thinking of a device about the size of a couple CD jewel cases that
has two serial ports, a ps/2 or usb port, VGA port, power jack, and
perhaps a JTAG header concealed within.  This device is a regular RS232
serial terminal.  Plug in a monitor, keyboard, and something talking rs232
and you're ready to go.  Inside there would be a microprocessor, some ram,
some flash, and an FPGA to take care of glue logic and talking to the VGA
port.  The FPGA would be loaded with the digital schematics of a
particular terminal and its firmware, for instance, a Wyse 85 or 99GT (my
favorites).  That would get you most of the usual emulations.

How hard would it be to create something like this?  How much would it
cost?

-- 
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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