nep.pgelhausen@AMES-VMSB.ARPA (04/15/86)
When the discussion about the lack of vt52 keypad sequences on the ST first came up, the Atari reps replied that there WAS no vt52 keypad. I sent one of them transcriptions of the appro- priate pages from the vt-100 & DEC EDT manuals, explaining both the codes produced and the physical layout of the vt52 keypad. I presume they never have seen a real, live, vt52 (I know I havn't). I don't know if the Heath-19 (a vt52 workalike, w/ the addition of an insert/delete line code) has a keypad. perhaps that is what they were working from. Anyway.... Atari has had the info passed to them & are aware that they left something (well, not really VITAL) out of their vt52 emulation. Whether they are going to do something about it is still unknown. The only reply I recieved is an acknowledgement of my message, with no real info about whether any action would be taken in future ROMS. -Richard Hartman nep.pgelhausen@ames-vmsb ------
tainter@ihlpg.UUCP (Tainter) (04/17/86)
> When the discussion about the lack of > vt52 keypad sequences on the ST first > came up, the Atari reps replied that > there WAS no vt52 keypad. I sent one > of them transcriptions of the appro- > priate pages from the vt-100 & DEC EDT > manuals, explaining both the codes > produced and the physical layout of the > vt52 keypad. I presume they never > have seen a real, live, vt52 (I know > I havn't). > -Richard Hartman > nep.pgelhausen@ames-vmsb I have worked with real honest to gott vt52 terminals and they do have a keypad. In fact, the best editor for RSTS (Really Silly Timesharing System) is KED. KED stands for Keypad Editor for you fortunates who never used this system. --j.a.tainter