[Simh] Graphics Terminals and Graphic System Phototypesetters

Jon Elson elson at pico-systems.com
Sat Dec 12 16:16:38 EST 2015


> From: Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <captainkirk359 at gmail.com>
> To: SIMH <simh at trailing-edge.com>
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Graphics Terminals and Graphic System
> 	Phototypesetters
>
> That might be the case for most CRT based phototypesetters, but may I
> direct the groups attention to:
> <http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/> (Specifically to this YouTube
> video linked on that page: <https://youtu.be/CVxeuwlvf8w>)
>
> The page, and papers/videos thereon discuss the "jailbreaking" (to use
> the modern term) of the Linotron 202 phototypesetter at Bell Labs by
> Joe Condon, Brian Kernighan, and Ken Thompson in 1979. (What does all
> this have to do with SIMH? Well, the Linotron 202 was controlled by a
> PDP-11 running UNIX.)
>
>
Well, no surprise that BK and KT were involved in this sort 
of escapade!  Totally in character!

Jon


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