27 Jan
2013
27 Jan
'13
7:58 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 01:55:49PM -0500, Toby Thain wrote:
Can you expand on why you hated them? Was that generic
to glass ttys,
or just this model?
For me it was the lack of selective clearing -- so doing even basic
editing on an ADM3A (even just ^W to delete a word) over a 1200-baud modem
connection meant lots and lots of ASCII blanks. Annoyingly slow...
VT100s were *way* nicer, and even VT52s were a step up (at least they
had ESC K, and the arrow keys could be easily distinguished from control
chars, so ^H means one thing and left-arrow means another).
John Wilson
D Bit