<story><title>Integrating a VT220 into my life</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2016/03/22/Integrating-a-VT220-into-my-life.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickpeterson</author><text>Kind of random, but you made me think of it. I always wanted to do an entire site in PDF, with all the links opening other pdfs on the same server. That or postscript...</text></item><item><author>paulmd</author><text>Quasi-related:&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve always wanted an ultra-low-power dumb terminal using eInk paper displays - something you could hit days of runtime with using a small battery pack.  eInk uses no power when they&amp;#x27;re not updating - so idling or long-running operations would hardly use any power.&lt;p&gt;So far the easiest approach I&amp;#x27;ve found is using a hacked Kindle with an attached keyboard.  You can run a terminal client on it and ssh into another system, which I think is a sensible access mode.&lt;p&gt;Ideally, something like the AVR PicoPower microcontrollers would be fantastic - they run on ultra-low-voltage, eat 1 mA&amp;#x2F;MIPS, and idle down to basically nothing (&amp;lt;1ma active and a few dozen microamps during sleep).  ssh is probably out of the question but I could toss a VT100 stack on it.  Unfortunately the eInk display is the hard part there - most eInk parts have very poor documentation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cieplak</author><text>Funny you bring that up, I was just reading about this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;When Steve Jobs left Apple and started NeXT, he pitched Adobe on the idea of using PS as the display system for his new workstation computers. The result was Display PostScript, or DPS. DPS added basic functionality to improve performance by changing many string lookups into 32 bit integers, adding support for direct output with every command, and adding functions to allow the GUI to inspect the diagram. Additionally, a set of &amp;quot;bindings&amp;quot; was provided to allow PS code to be called directly from the C programming language. NeXT used these bindings in their NeXTStep system to provide an object oriented graphics system. Although DPS was written in conjunction with NeXT, Adobe sold it commercially and it was a common feature of most Unix workstations in the 1990s.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;PostScript#History&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;PostScript#History&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Integrating a VT220 into my life</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2016/03/22/Integrating-a-VT220-into-my-life.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickpeterson</author><text>Kind of random, but you made me think of it. I always wanted to do an entire site in PDF, with all the links opening other pdfs on the same server. That or postscript...</text></item><item><author>paulmd</author><text>Quasi-related:&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve always wanted an ultra-low-power dumb terminal using eInk paper displays - something you could hit days of runtime with using a small battery pack.  eInk uses no power when they&amp;#x27;re not updating - so idling or long-running operations would hardly use any power.&lt;p&gt;So far the easiest approach I&amp;#x27;ve found is using a hacked Kindle with an attached keyboard.  You can run a terminal client on it and ssh into another system, which I think is a sensible access mode.&lt;p&gt;Ideally, something like the AVR PicoPower microcontrollers would be fantastic - they run on ultra-low-voltage, eat 1 mA&amp;#x2F;MIPS, and idle down to basically nothing (&amp;lt;1ma active and a few dozen microamps during sleep).  ssh is probably out of the question but I could toss a VT100 stack on it.  Unfortunately the eInk display is the hard part there - most eInk parts have very poor documentation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulmd</author><text>This reminds me of Terry Davis&amp;#x27; TempleOS, which features an ubiquitous hyperdocument system.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.codersnotes.com&amp;#x2F;notes&amp;#x2F;a-constructive-look-at-templeos&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.codersnotes.com&amp;#x2F;notes&amp;#x2F;a-constructive-look-at-temp...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Terry himself is schizophrenic but it&amp;#x27;s a fascinating piece of outsider art in many respects.  He&amp;#x27;s even posted on HN under several accounts, but he&amp;#x27;s aggressive and disruptive and inevitably ends up banned.</text></comment>