22 Nov
2017
22 Nov
'17
6:55 p.m.
On 22 November 2017 at 11:42, Ben Greenfield via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:
In short: the VT05 was DEC's first video terminal, from the early '70s, and
would have presumably been in use at some installations that used early
Unix. My guess - and this is entirely a guess - is that it had been
entirely supplanted by the VT52 and friends by the time Unix gained
widespread popularity.
There is a pretty good overview of the VT05 at
https://vt100.net/dec/vt05.html and
http://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/DEC_VT05 has a plethora of
pictures.
I have no idea why there are no termcap/terminfo entries for the VT05.
stty in BSD as early as 2.79 understands "vt05" as a settings argument, but
it's not clear to me what you would use for $TERM.
-Henry
On Nov 22, 2017, at 11:33 AM, Random832
<random832(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
As far as I know (and I've gone looking for this specifically, oddly
enough, out of idle curiosity), no version of termcap/terminfo has
contained a description for the VT05.
For those who are reading about this as history and didn’t live it this
experience this statement needs more background.
I will look up the VT05, but hope that you may add some to color as to
this stands out.