20 Jul
2011
20 Jul
'11
9:52 a.m.
In article <4E26950B.335.4A7DB3 at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
For their time, the VT52 terminals were quite a bit
more than glass
TTYs. I've used terminals that really were glass TTYs; at most, you
could erase a screen or (hopefully) a line. There were terminals
that did not implement any sort of scrolling.
Interesting! I'd have thought scrolling was a bare minimum for a CRT
terminal. So did it wrap around to the top or what?
Do you remember brand names?
For its time, not bad and certainly useful--and
certainly enough for
most editors and applications.
IIRC, one of the first "visual editor" software was a set of macros
for TECO on a VT52. The predecessor of emacs.
But there were far less-capable terminals at the time.
The VT52 was
one of the terminals that moved the interactive mindset away from the
teletype meme.
Nice summary!
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