Question about "Distributed" in the DFT name.

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Mon Nov 18 11:37:50 CST 2019


odd message.. no body..

first generation displays were very dumb, later generations were intelligent and could parse the data stream
allowing the creation of multiple virtual displays along with graphics. these are the ones with a 25th status
row

Ken just wrote a blog post about this trying to defuse the nonsense on the web about the reason why
terminals are 80 x 25

https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1192497422959665153




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