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Knight TV Resurrection (2018)

26 pointsby rbanffy12/09/20247 commentsview on HN

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pvg12/09/2024

Short thread at the time with some author comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17659799

PaulHoule12/09/2024

The regular way you did graphics with a PDP-10 or 11 was

https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/DEC_VK100

It had ANSI escape sequences equivalent to CIRCLE or LINE like you'd find in microcomputer BASIC except the Gigi was much more colorful than any early micro.

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shrubble12/09/2024

These are an interesting design, especially with the remote-terminal aspects. I do wonder how the CRTs were driven at that resolution.

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larsbrinkhoff12/09/2024

This has now reached the masses with the sale of over 9000... I mean 800 PiDP-10 units. Oscar is kind of pushing ITS as the premier PDP-10 operating system.

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