On 1/26/10, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:10 AM, William Donzelli wrote:
DEC was not completely unaware of block mode
terminals (VT62? And I
think a VT-100oid?).
That was the VT-131, I think?
Yep.
That always confused me...It's a
block-mode device but it still speaks ASCII over async serial?
Yep.
Was
there an ASCII and async serial version of a 3174-ish terminal
controller, or something like that?
Nope. The VT-131 depended on application code that processed
block-level screen updates.
The only application I know of that worked with DEC block-mode
terminals was some sort of typesetting program. It's possible there
was more than one, but if so, it was obscure then and forgotten now.
-ethan