Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!ihlpg!nkg1 From: nkg1@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Neeraj K. Gupta) Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: display terminals Message-ID: <3459@ihlpg.ATT.COM> Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 12:02:15 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.3459 Posted: Wed Jul 15 12:02:15 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 02:41:36 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 16 Keywords: display terminals, books I have been trying to study the architecture of display terminals. Some of the Issues that I want to study are: What factors determine the resolution ( dots/inch ) on the display ? How are characters displayed on the screen ? ( Intelligent vs Dumb terminals) Calculating the position of the cursor, processing any special chars/escape sequences before display, What determines the size of the dot-matrix for each character ? ( How to change it) If I were to assemble a terminal what is required ? A sort of handbook for terminals. I would appreciate if someone could give some sources for the information. Neeraj