| Well, technically the VT LAN40 terminal featured ReGIS and Sixel
graphics, but it was EOL'd sometime back, and I'm not sure if they are
available anywhere now (only 4,000 were made). Also, X-terminals
supported ReGIS and Sixel by way of the DECterm terminal emulator
(although the local firmware emulator did not).
Alternatives are terminal emulators on PCs like KEA340 and its
competitors, Excursion (still produced by Digital, but requires an X
environment), or DECterm on an Alpha workstation. I don't think
Digital produces X-terminals anymore, but other companies do.
Also, Sun River owns all of Digital's terminal rights now, so it
conceivable that they still make color graphics terminals.
Actually, thats a real good idea to check out. The VT LAN40 was
supposed to replace the VT340 so it could be EOL'd, since we lost our
source for video tubes for it. However, we later found a new source
for VT340 tubes, and I don't ever remember hearing about it being EOL'd
before being sold to Sun River (whatever they are called now).
Even in its final days, we still sold several hundred units a year of
the VT340 (the product that wouldn't die) at way over $1,000 a piece,
so Sun River might have kept that line alive.
jeb
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As you investigate, please keep in mind that sixel
graphics and regis graphics are independent.
Regis graphics includes standard graphics directives such
as set color, draw line, draw circle etc. Sixel graphics
includes not much more than just the ability to write
a tiny slice of 6 vertical contigious dots of your choice
(and hence the name sixels), but of course with proper
sets of dots you can draw "anything" since every dot on
the screen is addressable.
/Eric
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