[geeks] Recommendations?

[dave at cca.org]

mcguire at neurotica.com writes:

>On April 7, dave at cca.org wrote:
>> There's some good reason the built-in "telnet" doesn't do
>> vt100 properly, right?

>  There are several reasons.  Pick one:

>   1 - Microsoft couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag
>   2 - They're too busy writing bad specs to actually read the good ones
>   3 - Windows is so horribly bloated that parsing VT100 escape
>       sequences consumes too many precious CPU cycles, so they "left a
>       few out"

My theory is that it's to discourage accessing remote cli systems,
or somehow make them "look bad" to anyone ignorant enough to fall
for that.

Or maybe someone at Microsoft was following the standard corporate
policy: "Deviate from standards to force people into Microsoft-only
sitatuions." and thought it could be applied to vt100. (Heh.)

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