On Thu, 6 Sep 2018, Paul Koning wrote:
The work of a VT100 is quite a lot more complex than
that of a VT52
(many more screen operations, and more complex control sequence
parsing). With the hardware technology available at the time, it was a
pretty tough job. Does the VT100 have a microprocessor? It may predate
those. In hardwired 7400 series logic, it isn't an easy job.
Yes, the V100 has an Intel 8080, the stripped-down V101 has an Intel 8085.
Christian