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Re: Recommendations for terminal with Meta key?

#2098
From: Michael Schmidt
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1988 08:09
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In article <784@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu>, rsm@amethyst (Robert Maier) writes:
>I plan on buying a new terminal for personal use.  Since I use Emacs a
>good bit, a Meta key is high on my list of requirements.  An escape
>key, even a reasonably placed one, is a poor substitute.

Surprisingly an Atari ST does the job! Buy one,  get Uniterm 2.0d
and you have all these fancy thingies like ^S,^Q  and meta key in
conjunction with an  vt200 emulation. Don't  know why this works,
but it works fine. I am using it at the moment.
-- 
    Michael Schmidt, Universitaet-GH Paderborn, FB 17, Warburger Str.100,
                     D-4790 Paderborn, West Germany
Mail:   michael@pbinfo.UUCP         or          michael%pbinfo@uunet.uu.net
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From: michael@pbinfo.uucp (Michael Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Recommendations for terminal with Meta key?
Summary: Get an Atari!
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Date: 22 Jul 88 08:09:42 GMT
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