Prime terminals info wanted

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2 total messages Started by Mike Ciaraldi Mon, 20 Oct 1986 02:40

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Author: Mike Ciaraldi
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1986 02:40

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I may be doing some work on a Prime computer soon, under
the Primos operating system.  They have a version of Emacs
avaiable, and I would like to try it.
The manula says that Emacs will work with several models of
Prime CRT terminals.  I remember it mentioning a
momodel 45, and a model 100.
I would like to access the computer from an IBM PC
via modem, and so need a terminal-emulation program.
Does anyone know if the 45 and 100 are compatible
with terminals from other manufacturers, e.g is a 
Prime 100 like a VT100?
Primos doesn't have termcaps or anything like that.
So, the Emacs probably has the control codes for the
terminal hard-coded into it.
Finding out that a Prime erminal was similar to some other,
or that there was a terminal-emulatin program for the
IBM PC that emulated it, would be very handy.

Repeated call to the local Prime office have met with 
no success.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Mike Ciaraldi
seismo!rochester!ciaraldi

Re: Prime terminals info wanted

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Author: Bob Ollerton
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1986 23:53

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The Prime PT45 is based on a BeeHive DM30 with a few microcode
tweeks (just enough to scree the customers).  They stopped
selling it 3 or 4 years ago.  It was replaced with the PST100
which is claimed to be ansi like.  The PST100 was replaced with the
PT200 with is also sort of ansi like.

There is a terminal emulator for the PC which can emulate the
PT45, PST100, PT200, and other more popular terminals from
Pacer Software, (619) 454-0565 in La Jolla, California.

I recall that Prime Emacs had drivers in it for a bunch of other
terminals (vt100, vt52, H19, etc)  but these drivers were not
as powerfull (read fast) as the ones imbedded for the Prime
supplied terminals.  Prime supplies a fancy key binding for
their terminals which is imbedded within Emacs.  It would
be possible to build a fancy binding using one of the less
powerful terminal drivers, it may not be as fast...

Prime has no termcap facility for everyday programs.  There is
a package for block mode/data entry applications but its not
useful for interactive programs like Emacs.

Hope this helps.

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