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From: dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for terminal emulator with perks.
Message-ID: <312@saxony.pa.reuter.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 90 20:39:35 GMT
References: <5433@plains.UUCP>
Organization: Reuter:file Inc  (A Reuter Company) Palo Alto, CA
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In <5433@plains.UUCP> bezenek@plains.NoDak.edu (Todd M. Bezenek KO0N) writes:
>	o  A 43 line mode.
Why?  This might be handy for talking to hosts that expect teletypes (real or
glass), but full-screen hosts expect say, a VT-100, to have 24 display lines
and so will never make use of the extra 18--you'll just have to squint to
read the tiny characters.  Seriously, developing device-independent 
communications displays (XWindows, or distributed applications) is a much
more sensible step than kludging more lines onto an imitation of 15-year-old
technology.

>	o  Smooth scrolling.
I've seen this on a PC, once.  I think you have to do nasty things to the
registers on the video card, and even then I'm not sure that you can smoothly
scroll *part* of the screen.  Again, this looks like a feature where mucho
time and effort yields negligible payoff....
                                                 Dave