VT100's

Christian Corti cc at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Sat Sep 8 03:05:33 CDT 2018


On Thu, 6 Sep 2018, Paul Koning wrote:
> The work of a VT100 is quite a lot more complex than that of a VT52 
> (many more screen operations, and more complex control sequence 
> parsing).  With the hardware technology available at the time, it was a 
> pretty tough job.  Does the VT100 have a microprocessor? It may predate 
> those.  In hardwired 7400 series logic, it isn't an easy job.

Yes, the V100 has an Intel 8080, the stripped-down V101 has an Intel 8085.

Christian


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