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Started by len... Craig Scott Lennox
Tue, 18 Sep 1990 01:39
Bitmapped Cyrillic characters
Author: len... Craig Scott Lennox
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 01:39
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 01:39
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Since we have a Soviet poster here, I thought this would be a good opportunity to bring this up again: My home computer displays the English alphabet as a 7x7 dot matrix, which I belive is typical of computers and terminals: XXX XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XXXXXXX XXXXX XX XX XX XXXXXX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXX, etc. I have tried to come up with a similar representation of the Cyrillic alphabet, but it seems as though a great many characters cannot be made. E.g. the characters for "sh", "shch", and "ee" with a circumflex(?). However, it doesn't *seem* as though the Cyrillic alphabet is significantly more complex than ours, and Soviet computers must have *some* way of displaying them efficiently and without extensive graphic capability, etc. Any ideas on how it's done? It's been a mystery to me. -- | flame me at: len...@minilove.diag.stratus.com, (Craig Scott Lennox) | |"Oh boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a REALLY BIG ram disk!" | | Disclaimer: My opinions are covered by section 2b of the Gnu Public | | License and thus do not belong to Stratus Computer. |
Re: Bitmapped Cyrillic characters
Author: v116... Dave Archer
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 02:56
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 02:56
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In article <LENNOX.90S...@minilove.diag.stratus.com>, len...@minilove.diag.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) writes...
>|"Oh boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a REALLY BIG ram disk!"
Someone at work once said something to this effect. Basically, it was in
discussion of what good virtual memory was going to do him considering he
already had 8 megs and hardly needed more (at the time). "Well, I could
always make a big ram disk with the ram and use virtual memory for the
programs." I'm not entirely sure if he was joking or not, somehow I don't
think he was.
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Re: Bitmapped Cyrillic characters
Author: ni... Nick Rothwell
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 10:51
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 10:51
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In article <LENNOX.90S...@minilove.diag.stratus.com> len...@minilove.diag.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) writes: >My home computer displays the English alphabet as a 7x7 dot matrix, >which I belive is typical of computers and terminals: > >I have tried to come up with a similar representation of the >Cyrillic alphabet, but it seems as though a great many characters >cannot be made. To tie together the Cyrillic article thread and the old computers/files article thread: The Terak Corp. 8510 which I had until a short while ago, has a load of font files dating from around 1977. One of them was Cyrillic. They were mapped to an 8 line by 9 pixel character grid, I think. Poor machine blew its power supply a few weeks ago. R.I.P. Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. ni...@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "Now remember - and this is most important - you must think in Russian."
Re: Bitmapped Cyrillic characters
Author: s... steve lamont
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 05:18
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 05:18
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In article <36...@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v116...@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes: >In article <LENNOX.90S...@minilove.diag.stratus.com>, len...@minilove.diag.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) writes... >>|"Oh boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a REALLY BIG ram disk!" >Someone at work once said something to this effect. ... > ... I'm not entirely sure if he was joking or not, somehow I don't >think he was. Actually, this idea may not be entirely fatuous. The swapper is probably better at handling I/O than the disk I/O routines. For instance, it is more efficient (I think, it has been a while) to map a file into virtual memory and treat it as RAM on a VMS VAX. This may just be a function of the rotten VMS C standard I/O library, however. spl (the p stands for page fault) -- Steve Lamont -- SciViGuy -- Phone number of the week: (408) 646-2572 Confuser Center / Code 51 / Naval Postgraduate School / Monterey, CA 93943 "There are no fleas in the Republican Army." - Italo Calvino, _The Baron in the Trees_
Re: Bitmapped Cyrillic characters
Author: ls... logan shaw
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 20:03
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 20:03
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In article <14...@libra.cs.nps.navy.mil> s...@cs.nps.navy.mil (steve lamont) writes:
>>In article <LENNOX.90S...@minilove.diag.stratus.com>, len...@minilove.diag.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) writes...
>>>|"Oh boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a REALLY BIG ram disk!"
[ parts of intermediate postings deleted ]
>Actually, this idea may not be entirely fatuous. The swapper is probably
>better at handling I/O than the disk I/O routines. For instance, it is more
>efficient (I think, it has been a while) to map a file into virtual memory and
>treat it as RAM on a VMS VAX. This may just be a function of the rotten VMS C
>standard I/O library, however.
It is also very possible that mapping a file into virtual memory may be more
efficient on many UNIX boxes. There is at least one machine here that is on
a network filesystem, but it has its own disk to swap to. Since the network
is usually very bogged down, a virtual ramdisk would probably be MUCH faster.
> spl (the p stands for
> page fault)
>--
>Steve Lamont -- SciViGuy -- Phone number of the week: (408) 646-2572
>Confuser Center / Code 51 / Naval Postgraduate School / Monterey, CA 93943
>"There are no fleas in the Republican Army."
> - Italo Calvino, _The Baron in the Trees_
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