On Thu, 2011-03-10, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:31:11 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> You tricked me by saying only DEC VAX/VMS programmers would know what it >> was. In fact, many, many Unix programmers knew about curses (and still >> do) and very few VMS programmers ever did. C wasn't very widely used >> under VMS, and VMS had it's own screen formatting and form handling >> libraries. >> > From the context the "only DEC VAX/VMS programmers" remark applied to the > VT-100. However, the OP is wrong about that - VT-100s were well-known and > popular devices in the 8-bit microprocessor world too, together with > assorted clones. In addition, many other terminals had a VT-100 emulation > mode. IIRC all the Wyse terminals had that.
But he wrote VT-200, not VT-100. I assumed he meant those (vt200) had some exotic graphics mode. The VT-xxx series was pretty heterogenous, although most of us think of them as more or less fancy VT-100s. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
