15 Mar
2007
15 Mar
'07
9:17 a.m.
Rob wrote:
One class of terminal that seems to have disappeared
completely from
history is the viewdata terminal. 40x25 lines, colour and block
graphics and other effects implemented by control codes that took up
visible spaces..
I remember spending a while hunting out a PC terminal emulator that would
handle double-height properly; eventually I gave up. There was one (I think it
might have been Odyssey) which came fairly close, but all the others seemed to
make a total mess of it.
It's one of the things that's been nagging at me about some sort of "do
everything" terminal emulator, because I'm not sure whether supporting
double-height introduces all sorts of problems when otherwise trying to
support "classic" terminals.