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From: Jerome Fine <jhfine(a)idirect.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: What's the best RS-232 terminal?
But if you want to actually run them turned on when
they are even two
high, other than a VT100 (which is what I still use for the first level),
I
have not found another terminal (except for VT100
clones) which allows
stacking.
What about a VT52 ? three levels, and even then, you can handle the
keyboards & have some manuals on top ;-)
In general, I use 6 terminals with 3 VT100s as the
first level
and 3 VT220s as the second level. With such old systems as the
PDP-11 which don't have a Windows environment to allow more
than one screen on the terminal at the same time, I find that there
is an absolute need for more than one terminal at a time. In general,
whenever I am doing some editing on a very long file (more than a
1000 blocks), I usually run 5 edit sessions rather than have a hard
copy of the file. 4 edit sessions are for a READ ONLY copy of the
assembled listing and the 5th is on the actual source code which makes
the charges. One of the 4 edit sessions is almost always somewhere
in the cross-reference at the end of the listing which then allows me to
look at 3 of those references at the same time within the rest of the
listing.
Ups ;-)
I always used different terminals on different computers. But just an idea,
why don't you get something with XWindows, so you could see all this
sessions on one screen ?
cheers,
emanuel