David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) (12/27/90)
About VLT being the best emulator, consider this: for my term project one of the problems I was having was to keep a PDP/11 in sync with a VT100 doing constant screen updates, but responding immediately to the user regardless of buffers and other such things. Everyone else used a marktime request to wait some arbitrary length of time. Being deviant, I just sent a printer diagnostic code to the VT100, did my update, and waited for the response about the printer. Worked great on the VT100 and VT220s, but needless to say, no emulator, be it IBM, Mac, or Amiga could replicate these functions of the terminal. No emulator, that is, except Handshake. Blew me away that even this was implemented. Not to mention that double size characters, double width characters, everything else worked. Telix under MS-DOS came the closest, at least it double spaced where I wanted double width... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- = plummerd@uregina.ca or plumme@hercules.uregina.ca (BITNET) = =---------------------------------------------------------------------= = Amiga__ | Make it possible for programmer's to = = __ /// IBMUBMWEALLBM4IBM | write code in English and you'll soon = = \\\/// | discover that programmers cannot = = \XX/ | write in English. = ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- David Plummer - via FidoNet node 1:140/22 UUCP: ...!herald!weyr!70!David.Plummer Domain: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG Standard Disclaimers Apply...