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Re: DMD 5620s

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From: Hurf Sheldon
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1986 14:38
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In article <5404@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
 ...
>>Another problem with the 5620 has been lack of software.  Rob Pike
>>demonstrated features of the Blit software at the Santa Monica Usenix
>>back in 1982 which I still haven't seen on a 5620.

 ... or information about what's available
>
>Dave Prosser's "myx" package (available rather inexpensively through
>the AT&T UNIX System Toolchest) has most of those features.

 ... is there more?

>... the user interaction when it needs it.  I have seen some amazing user
>interfaces, and I'm expecting to develop yet another in a few weeks.

 ... will you share it?
 
>People who use the default terminal emulator in a DMD layer to run
>something like EMACS on the host computer are not exploiting the DMD's
>capabilities very well.

 ... maybe so but it does work nicely - can it run emacs locally? Say -
    do you know how to get a larger font in the tek4010 window?

 We have several 3b2/dmd systems - We are ignorant of the possibilities & would
much appreciate any helpful suggestions & software. I was excited when I
realized we had the real magilla blit that A.K. Dewdney wrote of but where
is a standard reference on what it can do & how to do it?


     Hurf Sheldon			Arpa.css: hurf@ionvax.tn.cornell.edu
     Lab of Plasma Studies	
     369 Upson Hall			phone: 607 255 7267
     Cornell University
     Ithaca, N.Y. 14853
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Subject: Re: DMD 5620s
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