[SunRescue] Dumb Term

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james at foonly.com writes:

>What's that make my VT103?  It's got a 4 * 4 Qbus backplane.  I always
>wanted to add 22 bit addressing and cram a uVAX II board into it.

Did any of those vt100-with-a-microprocessor-crammed-in machines
do well in the market? There were PDP-8, PDP-11, and Z80 versions,
right? Did people consider them to be good personal computers in
their day?

>I know I heard the term "smart terminal" before X was in vogue.  Perhaps
>it was originally in reference to something like the Opus Esprit, which
>was a multifunction unit with many features besides simple terminal
>emulation.

>IMO a VT52 is an example of a glass tty.  A DECwriter is a tty.  Something
>like a VT220 is considerably beyond both categories.

An early teleray is a glass tty (no cursor control). I don't see a 
hell of a lot of difference between a vt52 and vt220, personally.
Yeah, the 220 can handle downloadable fonts and does better scrolling
region kinda stuff. La la la, who cares. :-) For what text terminals
are used for 99.9% of the time, a vt52 and a vt220 are the same.

On the other hand, you can barricade a door a lot better with a decwriter
than with a vt220.  Depends on your needs.

-- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --