26 Jan
2010
26 Jan
'10
6:07 p.m.
On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:10 AM, William Donzelli wrote:
That was the VT-131, I think? That always confused me...It's a
block-mode device but it still speaks ASCII over async serial? Was
there an ASCII and async serial version of a 3174-ish terminal
controller, or something like that?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
That's
just a subset of DEC vs IBM, an old but vigorous one. You
couldn't stick a VT100 on a mainframe (terminal emulator packages
aside) and you couldn't stick a 3270 on a VAX,
I think you could (either way), with the appropriate 3rd party stuff.
DEC was not completely unaware of block mode terminals (VT62? And I
think a VT-100oid?).