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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
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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
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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