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[Early Access] Abusing a 90's Brother Word Processor

I just can't get enough of these ridiculous Brother 386 laptop things.  So much so, that I went out and found the VGA model! Today, let's try  and hack into this thing and get it running, well... anything!

[Early Access] Abusing a 90's Brother Word Processor

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Ok so yes.. I did joke about running Plan9 on that but if its got 16-32Mb of ram and a VGA/VESA graphics card it can do it. https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/system_requirements/index.html

Yes one can do that. Had to write a custom terminfo file for a few AT&T keyboard back in the early days of Linux. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/terminfo.5.html

This was super fun! I wonder if you can set a TERM (or maybe a custom termcap) to recognize that keymapping. I've seen errors like that when booting very old UNIX COBOL stuff and I have to tweak variables to set the term type to register keypresses correctly.

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