On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:44:08 +0200 "Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote: > >>> Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> schrieb am 21.07.2020 > >>> um 09:09 > in > Nachricht <20200721070910.GB187495@gardel-login>: > > On Mo, 20.07.20 10:13, Bruce A. Johnson > > (bjohn...@blueridgenetworks.com) wrote: > > > >> Reading this discussion about VT220, I'm wondering why that was the > >> choice and not VT100 (which was also monochrome). And I'm > >> straining my memory to recall what it was that we had back then > >> that made the VT100 seem so slick and futuristic. > > > > Our default used to be vt100 originally, but that can't do > > pgup/pgdown, which people found quite annyoing. vt220 adds support > > for that, and is apparently as widely supported, so we changed to > > that. > > If you view images of a vt100, it's simply because vt100 had no > PgUp/PgDown key ;-) > So I cannot send the sequence.
It appears they may have been introduced in 1986: http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_page_key.html and they may be disappearing again now !!! ;) > (when I was a student we weren't allowed to use vi, because CBREAK > mode would create an IRQ for every key pressed, and that was > considered to be too much load for the system... Only after 6pm, so > we came late just to be able to try vi...) > > > > > Lennart _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
