On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:52:13 +0000, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > 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. > You're right - he did say VT-200. Can't remember using one. However, I did buy a used VT-103 at some point and dumped it fairly rapidly as it had no manuals and I couldn't get it to work as a terminal (no wonder - I've since found out that it was really a standalone box with an LSI-11/23 crammed into the VT-100 box). It got swapped for a Wyse 120 - an excellent terminal with a white phosphor rather than green.
Grayshark was right too: the ANSI control code standard preceded the VT-100 - I live and learn - and because of that there was no commonality between VT-50/52 and VT-100 escape codes. Details here: http://vt100.net/vt_history BTW, there was no such thing as a VT-200 - there was a VT-220 text terminal (which I think the OP was remembering) and the VT-240 and 241 terminals, which were totally different graphics terminals that accepted Tektronics graphics commands: comparing a VT-220 to a VT-240/241 would be like comparing an Epson dot-matric printer to an HP 7485 plotter! -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
