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Article #37482Re: What an Atarian is
From: Rob Demillo
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 15:59
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 15:59
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In article <1951@uwovax.uwo.ca> 35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca writes: > By the way, IBM's running Procomm - supposedly one of the best terminal >emulators for the IBM can not dislay a proper VT-100 screen and yet Uniterm can. >I think that this says something about the "lowly" ST. > >Kevin-john Conway No, it just says something about the programming of both packages. There is *no* hardware/software reason why the PROCOMM package for the IBM should not be able to perfectly emulate a VT-100, as well as a VT-2xx and a Tektronix 40xx. It just doesn't because the programmers did not spend enough time debugging/writing code. (For that matter, UniTerm is not without its bugs: the Tektronix code to return to VTxxx mode is not faithfully emulated.) UniTerm is more a testimony to the patience/endurance/ability of Simon Poole than the ST. - Rob DeMillo | UUCP: ...ima!brunix!rjd Brown University | BITnet: DEMILLO%BRNPSG.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU Planetary Science Group | Reality: 401-863-3769 "I say you *are* the Messiah, Lord! And I ought to know, I've followed a few!"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!brunix!rjd From: rjd@brunix (Rob Demillo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: What an Atarian is Message-ID: <2943@brunix.UUCP> Date: 29 Mar 89 15:59:55 GMT References: <22152@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <10156@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1951@uwovax.uwo.ca> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rjd@zaphod.UUCP (Rob Demillo) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 24