[Simh] Rainbow100

Richard legalize at xmission.com
Fri Jul 21 13:04:52 EDT 2017


In article <60dfd1f7-eccb-aef0-ab79-4c1505497b72 at ieee.org>,
    Timothe Litt <litt at ieee.org> writes:

> The VT100 was designed as a flexible platform, with lots of opportunity
> (slots and power) for plugin options.  Internally, it looked more like a
> computer with "bus" slots than a dedicated terminal.

Another terminal that is like this is the HP264x series.  This was
literally a motherboard with slots and cards that provided the
facilities of the terminal: CPU, memory, tape interface, frame buffer,
character display buffer, etc.
-- 
"The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline>
            The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org>
     The Computer Graphics Museum <http://ComputerGraphicsMuseum.org>
  Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://LegalizeAdulthood.wordpress.com>


More information about the Simh mailing list