[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.
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