Vt100 was the first DEC terminal that wasn't a
state machine or some random
The distinmction between a 'state machine' and a 'processor' is somwhat
blurred, IMHO. Personally, I consider the VT50-series controller to be a
simple processor, I guess you call it a state machine.
I could even argue that the distinctiuon can come down to how it was
designed, a 'state machine' is desiged from a state transition diagram, a
'procesosr' runs a program which is descibed by a listing. The
VT50=-series was certainly the latter (there's a source listing of the
fimrware in one of the microfiches).
-tony