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Simon Slavin <slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> 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.

Hmm - I'll take your word for it for now.  I recall reading about what a
VDU was, but none of the books I have here mention VDU in any context
other than the VDU commands available on the BBC Micro, which isn't very
helpful really.

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

Erm - I was using the things almost 20 years ago too.  It doesn't mean
I've got the terminology straight.

Rowland.

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