[Simh] Graphics Terminals and Graphic System Phototypesetters

Quentin North quentin at quentin.org.uk
Thu Dec 10 10:50:28 EST 2015


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>> On Dec 9, 2015, at 10:33 PM, Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is is possible to simulate a graphics terminal in SimH for the PDP-11/40/45/70. So far, I have been able to get a text console working (I think it's a Teletype ASR-33) and serial consoles (DCI). I have seen some video of real PDP's playing lunar lander and such on graphics terminals, and if this is possible in a simulated environment, I would like to try it out.
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A common graphics standard for serial terminals was Tektronix and an emulation of a tektronix terminal is available in xterm if you connect via telnet to the PDP from either a real x-terminal or a PC with x-term with an x-term emulator. The command is xterm -t for the emulator. Various current and past unix tools support tektronix graphing. There certainly was a tektronix lunar lander and 3D tic-tac-toe, although I had those on an HP2000


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