Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU From: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: The Mythical \"X on a Dumb Terminal\" server, part 53 Message-ID: <9694@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: 16 Jul 88 22:19:55 GMT References: <16524@brl-adm.ARPA> Sender: uucp@eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 21 In article <16524@brl-adm.ARPA> valdis@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu writes: >Somebody proposed that we use a downloadable 256-char font with appropriate >pixel definitions to cover all possible bit patters. I never proposed such a thing. Please re-read my article. (back from re-reading so soon?) Now, note that I did not say anything about a downloadable font, nor did I say that I wanted to access every possible bit pattern. Each character on the terminal would be dealt with, by the server, as one "pixel"--one that can contain some number of different values, not that unlike a color display. The server would not display a character by painting it pixel-by-pixel; it would simply set one pixel to the correct value. (again) The goal here is not to do graphics on a character terminal. It is to do characters on a character terminal--using a consistent, (roughly) device-independent, network-transparent protocol: X. Jeff Siegal