On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Vance Dereksen wrote:

> Well, I'm not saying it would be pretty, but it's still got to be better
> than the print-only.

No, it would not be prettier. :-)

> 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.

ReGIS is definitely not useful for X, but sixel graphics are. Sixel
graphics is just a way of doing bitmapped stuff. The VT340 know about that
too. Also, the VT340 can handle a mouse.

But I would never want to try X on it. GNUPLOT is nice, though. :-)

	Johnny

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