5 May
2006
5 May
'06
8:23 p.m.
On 5/6/06, Michael Holley <swtpc6800 at comcast.net> wrote:
I had a DEC VT100 that was made around 1980 that would
crash when you sent
it a certain escape sequence. You would have to power cycle the terminal to
recover. Newer units did not have this problem (this was around 1985). When
we discovered this we would send this sequence to peoples terminals to see
if they crashed.
I guess DEC did not get the terminal emulation correct at first.
There are many known and well documented bugs with the VT100. The old
program 'vttest' is a good place to learn more (and to test your
emulator for bug-for-bug compatibility)
-ethan