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From: emerrill@tippy.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Telcom Program of the Gods
Message-ID: <127500033@tippy>
Date: 9 Sep 89 16:19:00 GMT
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/* Written  8:38 pm  Sep  8, 1989 by gwyn@smoke in tippy:apple */
>In article <19626@gryphon.COM> lbotez@pnet02.gryphon.com (Lynda Botez) writes:
>>Is ANSI emulation feasible on an Apple GS?  If so, why hasn't anyone
>>written a com program that would handle it?  It looks great on an IBM.
>
>ANSI is the American National Standards Institute, and cannot be emulated
>on an Apple IIGS or an IBM PC.

ANSI is also used (or misused, depending on your point of view) to talk
about "text" graphics on the IBMs.

There are a few programs which substitute the closest text characters for
ANSI graphics, but the reason not everybody has written a graphics-based
IIgs program is simple:  even at 1200 baud, the graphics interface is too
slow.  The has improved a lot since SD 5.0 came out, but it is still nowhere
in the acceptability range for 2400 baud.


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