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In article <BzAw1F.FJB@brunel.ac.uk>, David.Thomas@brunel.ac.uk (David Thomas) writes:
|> Re: VT100 support
|> 
|> In the documentation with the latest Kermit for AOS/VS, it talks about
|> the XLT characteristic for VT100 support, and mentions the need to
|> sysgen this in advance.
|> 
|> All our System Generation is done by the software house that supply
|> our library system. They say there may be a price to pay if I ask for
|> VT100, that I might lose some ports on my IACs, but they don't seem to
|> know for sure.
|> 
|> My objective is simply to run utilities like PED and SED with
|> MS-Kermit instead of our D211 emulator. I would only need VT100 support for
|> a few lines, say up to 4.
|> 
|> Can anyone clarify the limitations of VT100 support ?
|> 
|> My set up is AOS/VS 7.67 with three IAC16s of 1987 vintage and one
|> IAC8.

Gawd, it's been a long time since I thought about this, but.....

The code needed for VT100-Dxxx translation takes up quite a bit;  The old
IAC/16s had a memory limit that would have cut the ring buffers down to 
almost nothing.  So, the idea was that for VT100 emulation/translation, you
couldn't specify as many lines on the IAC in order to steal their buffers/
tables/whathaveyou.  I believe (but don't take it as Gospel) that the IAC/8,
having scads of memory (relatively speaking) did not have this problem.

Kurt Freiberger,
ex-SSR (RIP Oct '90)
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