12 Jul
2011
12 Jul
'11
3:04 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
I wasn't overly fond of VT-100s either, but then,
one could do worse.
I never liked the screen appearance or the keyboard feel of Wyse
terminals, for example.
Ann Arbor terminals were nice. Sat in front of an Ann
Arbor Ambassador for
many years, the major benefit 48 or 60 lines on screen. Using a typical
24-line terminal for programming felt like being crippled in comparison.
That might have been neat to experience. I did feel the pain of 24
lines and C-code, but since all of our terminals were
middle-of-the-road DEC and DEC-clones, we never had anything as exotic
as 48 or 60 lines. We had to resort to line printer output when the
code just couldn't be seen on one screen. OTOH, it enforced 1TBS
because nobody wanted to waste an entire line on one opening curly
brace.
-ethan