[HECnet] Vt100 tester

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-03-05 15:16, Clem Cole wrote:
Keith was one of the original xterm authors and part of the original
Project Athena at MIT & DEC.     Sadly, what I recall seems to be correct
for an open source version of SIXEL.

Fyi. A friend of mine have hacked in sixel support in xterm, but I don't think he considers it good enough for general release yet.

And xterm is still the best VT100 emulator out there.

	Johnny




From: Keith Packard
Date: Monday, March 4, 2013 4:55 PM
To: Clement Cole
Subject: Re: Pulling Old Bits from the memory cache


      "Cole, Clement T"   writes:

              Hey Keith,
                        One of the computer history mailing lists I monitor popped up a
                        question you might know the answer too.     Going back to
              your Athena
                        days, do you know if anyone ever either open sourced DECterm,
                        and/or put SIXEL/Regis support into something like xterm?
              To my
                        knowledge,   xterm never did SIXEL (it did support Tek 4010
              / plot
                        10).


      I've never seen the sources of DECterm, but fwiw, the VT100 emulator in
      xterm came from the DEC team who did the 'real' VT100 and, as I recall,
      came from a validated VT100 simulator, making it the best VT100
      emulation of its era.

      xterm certainly never did sixel or regis support before leaving the X
      consortium and Thomas Dickey never added it to my knowledge. Knowing a
      bit about the internals of xterm, adding sixel support would be a fairly
      major restructuring of the code.

      -keith