Re: 2 VDU's but Just a Single Mac

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From: Simon Slavin
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 00:00

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In article <1d4xql7.5a4ik61n6e68xN@p21.nas1.is2.u-net.net>,
real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar (Rebecca and wrote:

> Simon Slavin <slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > I would like to take this opportunity to scream very loud
> >                       "VDUs ARE NOT MONITORS !" [snip]
> 
> Hmmm.....  I always thought that a VDU was part of the terminal, which
> included terminal hardware, keyboard, etc.

Nope.  A VDU /is/ a kind of terminal -- the kind with a cathode ray
tube instead of paper.  The keyboard and anything else on that end
of the serial line are part of the VDU.

Trust me: I was using those things almost twenty years ago, before
the Mac had been invented.  Apple ][s were around, though.

Simon.
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From: slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost (Simon Slavin)
Subject: Re: 2 VDU's but Just a Single Mac
Date: 1998/02/26
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