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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 11:51:34 +0100
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On 03/06/2025 10:31, Nuno Silva wrote:
> For terminals (the hardware devices, it seems we may need to get another
> word for terminals, as it might otherwise be seen as nitpicking...),
> another issue is likely to be that, even if it somehow can support utf8,
> it might be limited in how much glyphs it can support at once. (I mean,
> not by an incomplete font, but because it has a limit in how much glyphs
> any font can have.)
> 
Are any terminals still being made?
I mean if I wanted to do the VT220 or wyse 50 thing I'd get a raspberry 
PI and a LCD monitor and run linux on it and build one out of software.

And absolutely use the full amount of ROM space to fill it with fonts.

Last time I saw a dedicated terminal in a bank, hooked up to some remote 
mainframe, it was a PC running some custom code, anyway.

> 
> There'll be terminals with at least some graphical capability, but
> that's only usable if it's fast enough.
> 
> I think mine supports changing fonts, but unless the customization is
> done with a cartridge(?) on the back side, I suspect loading the
> customization will not be very fast.

It really is simply too obsolete for me.

I replaced serial terminals with a plasma screen laptop running DOS back 
in the 90s sometime...

Or winodows3  equipped with a emulator or telnet client



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