Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

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?

Actual commercial ones -- doubtful.  Unless there is some esoteric
maker supplying all the banks running COBOL mainframes with 3250
clones.

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 further blurring the line between what is a hardware terminal vs. a
virtual terminal.

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

Indeed, a R-PI terminal could have a glyph for every unicode code point
that was defined as of the last time you did a software update on the
OS.

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.

This has been the way for a very long time.  The actual single function
"terminal" hardware is not likely a very sellable item anymore.

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

In my case, never had one.  "Terminal" access to whatever needed to see
a "terminal" on my end was always via a general purpose computer
running a software terminal emulator.  Originally Qmodem and a dialup
modem to access the college computers, later Linux and Minicom or
telnet or ssh.