ITE(4)          NetBSD Programmer's Manual (AMIGA Architecture)         ITE(4)

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     iittee - Amiga Internal Terminal Emulator

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     iittee00 aatt ggrrff00
     iittee11 aatt ggrrff11
     iittee22 aatt ggrrff22
     iittee33 aatt ggrrff33
     iittee44 aatt ggrrff44
     iittee55 aatt ggrrff55
     iittee66 aatt ggrrff66
     iittee77 aatt ggrrff77

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     TTY special files of the form ``ttye?''  are interfaces to the Amiga ITE
     for bit-mapped displays.  An iittee is the main system console on most Amiga
     workstations and is the mechanism through which a user communicates with
     the machine.  If more than one of the supported displays exists on a sys-
     tem, any or all can be used as iittee s with the limitation that only one
     will have a keyboard (since only one keyboard is supported) and only one
     of each type can be used.

     IIttee devices use the HP-UX `300h' termcap(5) entry.  However, as currently
     implemented, the iittee does not support the full range of HP-UX capabili-
     ties for this device.  Missing are multiple colors, blinking, softkeys,
     programmable tabs, scrolling memory and keyboard arrow keys.  The key-
     board will use the left and right _A_m_i_g_a keys as meta keys, in that it
     will set the eighth bit of the character code.  IIttee devices also do a
     good job at emulating the `vt100' termcap(5) entry.

     Upon booting, the kernel will first look for an iittee device to use as the
     system console (_/_d_e_v_/_c_o_n_s_o_l_e). If a display exists at any hardware ad-
     dress, it will be the console.  The kernel looks for them in decreasing
     order (that is, choosing the hightest-numbered one).

     On most systems, a display is used both as an iittee (_/_d_e_v_/_t_t_y_e_? aka
     _/_d_e_v_/_c_o_n_s_o_l_e) and as a graphics device (/dev/grf?). In this environment,
     there is some interaction between the two uses that should be noted.  For
     example, opening _/_d_e_v_/_g_r_f_0 will deactivate the iittee that is, write over
     whatever may be on the iittee display.  When the graphics application is
     finished and _/_d_e_v_/_g_r_f_0 closed, the iittee will be reinitialized with the
     frame buffer cleared and the old colormap installed.

HHIISSTTOORRYY
     The Amiga iittee first appeared in NetBSD 1.0

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     grf(4),  kbd(4)

NetBSD 1.0                      August 30, 1994                              1