Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

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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