Re: My RetroChallenge 2012 entry

[Jerome H. Fine]

>Liam Proven wrote:

>On 1 July 2012 23:03, Sander Reiche <sander...@gmail.com> wrote:
  

Hi all,

I would just like to inform you guys, if you haven't read or heard
about it, is that my entry being running an actual MicroPDP-11/83
online 24/7 with 2.11BSD on the internet, is now up. Sure, there are
still some minor things to sort out (like the order of name resolving
in libc apparently :)) and probably some other stuff, but I already
have 30 registered users and some of 'm are RPGing away in old skool
Zork :)
If you want to join in on the fun; http://ls-al.eu/~reiche/retro2012.html
    

Hey, cool. Thanks for that.

I wonder... I have a couple of long-term "projects" that might count...
  

Would anyone be interested in a variant of KED which manages
lines different from 24 and columns different from 80 / 132?  It
probably will not be ready before the end of July.  For those of
you who are not familiar, KED runs under RT-11 and RSTS/E
and is a screen editor.

I thought it would be great to have a variant of KED which handles
the DEC standard widths of 80 /132 columns, but with up to
48 lines which are available on a VT420.  Actually, I guess there
was a bit of cheating since up to 60 lines are supported - which
is what Ersatz-11 supports.

I  realized only recently that "terminals" which run with widths that
are NOT 80 /132 characters might even be available for testing.

This is a plug for Ersatz-11 which already supports terminals of
any width up to 255 columns and vertical lines counts up to
60 lines.  Because I have been so DECified, column widths
other than 80 / 132 seemed - well almost beyond thinking
about.  Now that I have run a few tests with Ersatz-11, this
is a challenge worth some effort.

Jerome Fine