Roger Leigh writes:
> One thing which has puzzled me for some time is why xterm, and all the
> other terminal emulators, including the Linux console, chose the VT100
> to emulate.

To support commercial software that had VT100 escape sequences hard coded.
-- 
John Hasler


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