I actually don't know too much about the NC4016, at a quick glance it has some similarities, especially in how the instructions are encoded. The H2 runs faster - but that's more a function of the FPGA than anything I have done. I would image it doesn't cope as well with radiation than the Novix. :)

That link redirects you to an interesting image if you access it from Hacker News! From the manual for that terminal, it seems to support some of the standard ANSI escape sequences, but there would be a lot more work to make it 100% compatible.

Oops! Jamie's such a joker. Yeah, best to cut and paste that url.

I was actually interested in turning the graphics driver into something that could support CGA (like) graphics. At the moment there are no graphics modes available to the system, it's all just text. The biggest limitation is the block RAM, which only gives me 18KiB of video memory to work with. You might be able to use it to run DOS like games on it, but little more.

Disabling cross-site referrers also works - that's a sane (non-)default :)

I've been looking for an Ann Arbor Ambassador for literally 20 years!

I loved those things: 80x60, "square" fonts, long-persistence phosphors, 19,200 baud capable...

Rad hard would be achievable if this was instantiated on a suitably rad hard FPGA, which do exist for mil & space applications.