tset (BSD?)

[aglew at urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM]

>For terminals, I think that all of the flavors of Unix have been going
>about key function binding all wrong.  Unix should not bind keys to
>functions, but rather functions to keys: have a per-character table, 
>each entry of which tells the tty driver which function to run for that
>key. (Sound like Emacs?)  Among other things this would be faster,
>because the driver would not have to search through a list of 7-14 (or
>so) functions for each key.
>
>Now this would require more memory per tty (like 256 bytes), but then
>again most Unixes are runing on machines that are somewhat bigger than
>PDP-11s...

If I remember correctly Mike "der Mouse" Parker at McGill has done this.
I think that it takes 512 bytes - it's nice to be able to store flags 
for special actions like erase, etc. Mouse, d'you read this newsgroup?

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