Xref: utzoo comp.terminals:771 comp.sys.att:3647 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!uwvax!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!dibble From: dibble@cs.rochester.edu (Peter C. Dibble) Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Info about the AT&T 620 terminal (REALLY AT&T 630MTG) Summary: Remarks on 630 MTG Message-ID: <10925@sol.ARPA> Date: 28 Jun 88 14:44:39 GMT References: <727@vsi.UUCP> <28765@pyramid.pyramid.com> <8161@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2778@ttrdc.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept., Rochester, NY Lines: 26 I looked hard for the "best" large-screen multi-window terminal on the market early this year. The 630 MTG was the result. I bought one and I am pleased with it. Scrolling _is_ a bit slow, but considering that it is scrolling a bitmap it's not bad. It's certainly not 19.2 kb. It looks like something between 4800 and 9600 Baud. It doesn't look strange while scrolling. Perhaps that is unique to the 615? I use the terminal most with OS-9 where I can only use the two standard windows. I wish I could use more of the power of this terminal, but even trivial things like peeling a window and saving it for reference, or cutting some text out of a window and sending it to the computer (with the mouse) are useful enough that I forgive this terminal for its slow scrolling. Does anyone have an idea where I can get enough information about the 630's operating system to write code for it? I bought the Software Development Guide and found nothing in there but fluff about C programming and utilities. I don't even know how to _invoke_ the operating system yet! I imagine that I could learn enough from the source package but I would rather do this without using secret stuff. I'd like to be able to give OS-9 support for the terminal away when I'm done with it. Peter Dibble dibble@cs.rochester.edu