27 Nov
2020
27 Nov
'20
3:59 a.m.
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
To make this a bit more TUHS-focused, was there
anything that had
similar functionality which pre-dated Bill Joy and termcap in late 70's?
As I recall, one wrote code "knowing" that it was a VT-05 etc if you
wanted escape sequences; I dimly recall using a getty-like file to get the
terminal type. Thus, /dev/tty8 was invariably (but not always) the
dreaded VT-05 (one client used a Duckwriter as the console, because he
wanted a hard-copy of everything; one day, the system went berserk (a bad
sector smack on the error log) and so did the hard copy, as Unix
faithfully tried to record each error).
-- Dave