6 Sep
2018
6 Sep
'18
3:20 p.m.
On 9/6/18 2:55 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
If you bought a bought a machine from DEC, you
probably needed DEC terminals
or clones of them to get the best from it. However, the same probably applied
to other manufacturers.
DEC's keyboard editors didn't talk anything other than VT52 or VT100 protocols
and you needed their keypad for KED to work.
Things like Curses and Termcap weren't a concept people groked at the time.