Hello Uri, > FL> The fact that so many people still remember these thigs is kinda > scary... > > you always remember your first geek love! :)
here here, I understand very well =) > you have to understand the vt100 phenomenon. not far before there were > no cheap crt terminals. they all were printer types (teletypes and > others) or fancy systems. dec came out with the vt52 which had the > keyboard and crt in one box but the key was addressable cursor > stuff. the vt100 added more cursor features, room for expansion slots > AND a detached keyboard! this was a major leap forward and dec sold > countless of them and it spawned a large vt100 compatible industry. the > current xterm and many other teminal emulators all have vt100 modes as > it was among the first entries in termcap (and in many apps that > hardwired vt100 codes). So, you could stretch it a bit and say that it was the first kind of "open" platform? (in the PC sense of open). Or was it just the pre-existing "compatible" industry with a very hot product? What I am asking, I guess, is weather all this "compatible industry" was beyond what had been seen already at the time or not... And, just to Kick it up a Notch(TM) as Emeril(TM?) would say, I also got a follow on to my previous terminal project: I got my hands on a Vax 4000-100A, which is headless and therefore can only be used via terminal.... <evil laugh/> This is going to be considerably harder to deal with though, as I am 100% VMS-free in my past, and the thing has no HD, only a tape drive. -Federico _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
