5 May
2006
5 May
'06
8:23 p.m.
I had a DEC VT100 that was made around 1980 that would crash when you sent
it a certain escape sequence. You would have to power cycle the terminal to
recover. Newer units did not have this problem (this was around 1985). When
we discovered this we would send this sequence to peoples terminals to see
if they crashed.
I guess DEC did not get the terminal emulation correct at first.
Michael Holley
www.swtpc.com/mholley
All I can say is that I've had so many buygy PC
terminal emulators that
I'm darn glad to haev the real terminals still in operation. I remember
one so-called VT100 emulator for Windows (this would be about 10 years
ago) that gaev a very interesting display when used with EDT on a VMS
box...
When I was doing my Ph.D. I kept an old VT100 running (I had the
prints...) simply because it was a lot more reliable (in terms of getting
the emulation right) than any PC product.
-tony