In article <[email protected]>,
    Timothe Litt <[email protected]> writes:

> The VT100 was designed as a flexible platform, with lots of opportunity
> (slots and power) for plugin options.  Internally, it looked more like a
> computer with "bus" slots than a dedicated terminal.

Another terminal that is like this is the HP264x series.  This was
literally a motherboard with slots and cards that provided the
facilities of the terminal: CPU, memory, tape interface, frame buffer,
character display buffer, etc.
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