modern serial terminal

David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
Thu Nov 1 17:02:57 CST 2007


On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Richard A. Cini wrote:

> This sounds similar to the WYSE WinTerm terminals. The box varies in size
> but it's about the size of a small hard cover book (your idea sounds
> smaller). Keyboard, monitor and mouse are separate. These are usually
> powered by powered by Windows CE. I've never used one, but they supposedly
> emulate a long list of terminals.
>
> Now, if you want to emulate the *actual* terminal (i.e., the exact on-screen
> font, etc.) and no fancy windows -- just raw text in various color
> combinations -- that's neat.

That's precisely what I'm after.  The CPU would be the same as the one in
the terminal.  FPGA provides support logic.  It would be more of a
terminal re-implementation than an emulation.

-- 
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu


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