Re: I want a 40 row display!

[johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)]

In article <C5z1wB.Bt9@wave.scar.utoronto.ca>, 90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (Brian Tao) writes:
|> In article <sfpIOGG00VR_Q5kJp_@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Seth D. Kadesh" writes...
|> > 
|> > Yeah, I was calculating this morning, and if I could make a legible
|> > screen display with a character matrix 5 pixels in height, with 1
|> > pixel seperating them, I could get a 32 row display....
|> > 
|> > (In other words, 40 rows is quite unreasonable with standard GS
|> > hardware.  Sigh.)
|> 
|>     Why not write GS/OS drivers for the Videx Ultraterm?  I think that
|> would be extremely cool to have something like GNO running on a 40-line
|> screen (and things like emacs to take advantage of it).

I checked up on the Ultraterm, and its video modes ranged from 80x48 to 160x24
to 128x32, among others.  Its 80x24 mode has an interlaced video capability
with a nice high-resolution characer set.  Probably the biggest problem with
using this on a GS would be that you'd have to use it on a composite monitor
such as a Monitor ///, but you could probably use it side-by-side with the RGB
monitor quite nicely.  Unfortunately, my Ultraterm is currently on the fritz
so I can't check it out.

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