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What is your favorite terminal?
Post 302944947 by drl on Sunday 24th of May 2015 08:25:57 AM
05-24-2015
Hi.
I interpret terminal as anything through which I can communicate with a computer, so it might be hardware, but these days it's usually some software package, driving a dumb screen and keyboard, often with a mouse, from the box to which it is attached, so software counts for a lot in that instance.
As with most people, my favorite changed as time went on, First, the convenience of a TTY33, then the smoothness of the TI Silent 700. However, having a CRT was usually superior, so the Heathkit H19 was best for a period. I think I have used a Tektronix 4014, but not for an extended period. The Illinois / CDC Plato terminal was nearly unbelievable at the time. An electric typewriter was used as the console human-I/O device for the CDC 1604 -- very low-speed IO. A similar device (possibly an IBM Selectric) was used for coding in APL (it had a changeable typeball). A special piece of hardware featuring 2 large programmable CRTs was the console for the CDC 6000 series. For development work (typically on weekends) we would sometimes use that console as a terminal. I'm sure there were others -- would a keypunch count? -- but I think I am digressing ( as well as showing my age
)
Now I use whatever is around that *nix provides, Konsole, Terminal, xterm, eterm (but not so much the X-Window driving [eg]macs).
Best wishes ... cheers, drl
APL (programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
PLATO (computer system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
IBM Selectric typewriter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I interpret terminal as anything through which I can communicate with a computer, so it might be hardware, but these days it's usually some software package, driving a dumb screen and keyboard, often with a mouse, from the box to which it is attached, so software counts for a lot in that instance.
As with most people, my favorite changed as time went on, First, the convenience of a TTY33, then the smoothness of the TI Silent 700. However, having a CRT was usually superior, so the Heathkit H19 was best for a period. I think I have used a Tektronix 4014, but not for an extended period. The Illinois / CDC Plato terminal was nearly unbelievable at the time. An electric typewriter was used as the console human-I/O device for the CDC 1604 -- very low-speed IO. A similar device (possibly an IBM Selectric) was used for coding in APL (it had a changeable typeball). A special piece of hardware featuring 2 large programmable CRTs was the console for the CDC 6000 series. For development work (typically on weekends) we would sometimes use that console as a terminal. I'm sure there were others -- would a keypunch count? -- but I think I am digressing ( as well as showing my age
)Now I use whatever is around that *nix provides, Konsole, Terminal, xterm, eterm (but not so much the X-Window driving [eg]macs).
Best wishes ... cheers, drl
APL (programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
PLATO (computer system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
IBM Selectric typewriter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Last edited by drl; 05-24-2015 at 04:48 PM..
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
yeahconsole
YEAHCONSOLE(1) [FIXME: manual] YEAHCONSOLE(1) NAME
yeahconsole - drop-down X terminal emulator wrapper SYNOPSIS
yeahconsole [-h] [-e command] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the yeahconsole command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. yeahconsole is a wrapper for X terminal emulators that provide a drop-down terminal embedding other terminal emulators OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. Any other argument is passed to the X terminal emulator. -h Show summary of options and supported xresources. -e command command will be run in the X terminal emulator used. If specified this must be the last option since everything after the -e will be interpreted as the command. RESOURCES
The resources from the embedded X terminal emulator will be used and are documented in the corresponding manpage for your X terminal emulator. The specific resources for yeahconsole follow: restart 0 or 1, 1 should restart the terminal. Default is 0. term terminal to use, valid values: urxvt, urxvtc, xterm. Default is xterm. screenWidth width of the terminal. Default is the display width. consoleHeight number of lines of the console. Default is 10. xOffset x position. Default is set to 0. aniDelay delay for the slide animation. Default is 40. stepSize step size in pixels for the animation 0 will disable the animation. Default is set 1. handleWidth width for the resize handle. Default is 3. handleColor color for the resize handle. Default is grey70. toggleKey key combo that toggles yeahconsole. Default is ControlAlt+y. keyBigger increase height of yeahconsole. Default is Control+KP_Add. keySmaller decrease height of yeahconsole. Default is Control+KP_Subtract. keyFull toggle fullscreen mode. Default is Alt+F11. SEE ALSO
xterm (1), rxvt (1). AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Damian Viano debian@damianv.com.ar for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Damian Viano [FIXME: source] April 15, 2006 YEAHCONSOLE(1)