Aucbvax.4490 fa.info-terms utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-terms Fri Oct 16 00:36:01 1981 New Version of Teleray ucode available >From FRANK@UTAH-20 Thu Oct 15 22:04:32 1981 We commisioned Research Inc. to develop a new set of ucode for the Teleray 1061, which is now available. It is referred to a Special Feature 720 (ARPANET version), and comes on five 2708s proms, as well as requiring some trace changes on the main PC board. Main improvements are: 1) retains all the features of the current "Arpa" ucode (meta key, down line loadable fcn keys). 2) massive speed up in I/D line. With the preliminary measurements that I have made, it require only two nulls at 9600 for the worst case I/D line. This is accomplished by a line map, which is modified for I/D line instead of actually moving lines in memory. The speed-up amounts to a 25:1 improvement in I/D line performance. 3) Definable scrolling window (a la VT100). One can now set a window beginning at one line and ending at another, and scrolling only takes place within that window. 4) The numeric key pad is now soft - the keys correspond to prog. fcns 21-32. 5) A new escape sequence will now clear just the prog. fcns - previously you had to reset the terminal in order to clear the fcn keys. 6) Status line: pressing "shift rubout" display a status line with baud rate, scrolling window limits, etc, overwriting (temporarily) the 24th line. 7) On reset, tabs come up in the position that DEC operating systems assume they'll come up in. My understanding is that an upgrade kit with instructions for modifying the pc board, as well as a new set of ucode, can be ordered from Teleray. Give Dennis Stollenwork at Teleray a phone call for more info on the upgrade kit. I don't have the particulars; we basically got one terminal with the changes and are now in the process of retrofitting all of our others. Randy ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.