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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: HELP: VT100 terminal with higher text resolution?
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 10:41:46 GMT
Message-ID: <C8LxpM.8EJ@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <DERAADT.93Jun7223221@newt.fsa.ca> <1993Jun13.153738.18632@gmd.de>
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In article <1993Jun13.153738.18632@gmd.de> veit@borneo.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes:
> No, codrv has no vt100 emulation for the moment due to an agreement
> with Hellmuth Michaelis, the author of pcvt. But codrv has the stubs
> to link in a different terminal emulator without much problems;

GOOD. This is excellent news, since vt100 emulation is such a bear to get
right I'd rather not have such a fertile breeding ground for bugs in my
kernel (I've written two vt100 emulators, and doing it right is a nightmare.
Just being able to support all the nondocumented features DEC depends on
to run their two main versions of EDT (VMS and RSX) plus TPU took me several
months of trial-and-error).
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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