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Article #471Re: 3270 tubes aren't that bad...
From: "Eric Thomas, SUNET"
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 1990 21:54
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 1990 21:54
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One of the really nice properties of 327x is that the application developer does not have access to keys like TAB, DELETE WORD, NEW LINE, etc. This means that it is impossible for each and every PC hacker to try to impose his religious perception of what these keys ought to do to the poor end-user; in other words, I never need to worry about what will happen when I hit the INSERT MODE or ERASE EOF key, in fact I know that the application does not have any way to know how I moved from the screen it presented me with to the final screen it will retrieve from the terminal when I hit the ENTER key. This also means that these functions will be available regardless of the laziness of the application developer, but after having used multiple PC packages for several months in a university the thing that really drove me crazy was the way you could never know what a given key would do in a particular package unless you are familiar with that package... Eric
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