The trick is you have to watch it work before you understand that this 
suggestion is rather humorous. Think of the VT340 as a color plotter and 
you're closer to the mark. It "draws" lines at about 10" per SECOND so to 
draw the both around an Xterm and the widgets would consume about 25 
seconds :-) Scrolling would be funny too.

Now one thing to realize is that there is the VT340-A2 and the VT340-G2, 
the latter can do 256 colors on the screen (out of a pallet of 4096) and 
the -A2 version can only do 16 colors on the screen (out of the same pallet).

Sixel graphics are kind of cool and somewhere I've got a GIF->Sixel viewer.

--Chuck

At 03:52 PM 6/20/01 -0400, you wrote:

>Well, I'm not saying it would be pretty, but it's still got to be better
>than the print-only.
>
>Peace...  Sridhar
>
>On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> > On June 20, Vance Dereksen wrote:
> > > Hi.  I forget the name of the language it uses, but the DEC VT340 
> supports
> > > graphics on the console.  I wonder if it would be possible to write a
> > > (would-be rather strange) X server for it.  Boggles the mind.  Anyone 
> know
> > > this language well enough?
> >
> >   It's called ReGIS, for Remote Graphics Instruction Set.  Some DEC
> > graphics terminals also handel Sixel graphics, which I don't know much
> > about.  I know ReGIS pretty well...and no, I really don't think it
> > wouldn't be practical.  The resolution is too low and the language is
> > primarily line-drawing-based.
> >
> >         -Dave McGuire
> >