4 Nov
2007
4 Nov
'07
2:40 p.m.
On Nov 4, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
For me, the reason is simple. Terminal emulators are too damn
much trouble...emulation problems, key mapping, etc. I've used
pretty much all of them over the years, I think...the best one I've
used was SmarTerm 240, and even that is far from perfect. Sometimes
what one really needs is an APPLIANCE...not an emulation of said
appliance built upon an unstable and problematic platform.
Further...A VT320 terminal pulls less than half an ampere at 120V,
and is available for use within about fifteen seconds of
powerup...can anyone say either of those things for a PC running
terminal emulation software?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007
I don't
understand why someone would want to spend 10x more
tima and money on a one-purpose device, when they can get
everything they want and more off a cheap PC.
Probably for the saem reason that some of us run classic computers in
preference to PCs...