7 Sep
2018
7 Sep
'18
6:48 a.m.
On Sep 6, 2018, at 6:20 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 9/6/18 2:55 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
True. DEC's approach was standards: as soon as the idea appeared, adopt it (ANSI
escapes) throughout the product line, then all the software has only a single API it needs
to understand.
paul
If you bought a bought a machine from DEC, you
probably needed DEC terminals
or clones of them to get the best from it. However, the same probably applied
to other manufacturers.
DEC's keyboard editors didn't talk anything other than VT52 or VT100 protocols
and you needed their keypad for KED to work.
Things like Curses and Termcap weren't a concept people groked at the time.