When I was a high school senior in the 1980s I worked for a company making a VT100 clone (it also emulated several other popular terminals) The processor was a 6502. I can't remember how much RAM it had, but it had an 8k ROM.
When I started on the project we were using 12k of EEPROM. The lead developer and I spent about a week optimizing the firmware to reduce the ROM requirements to 8k. For debugging we used logic analyzer traces. Fun times!
I remember that we called this a "smart terminal" because it had so many functions.
When I started on the project we were using 12k of EEPROM. The lead developer and I spent about a week optimizing the firmware to reduce the ROM requirements to 8k. For debugging we used logic analyzer traces. Fun times!
I remember that we called this a "smart terminal" because it had so many functions.