Xref: utzoo comp.editors:1776 comp.os.vms:29735 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.os.vms,vmsnet.misc Subject: Re: SMG based editor on VAX/VMS Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 90 18:25:18 GMT References: <68.26dcd5d9@mccall.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 24 In article <68.26dcd5d9@mccall.com> tp@mccall.com writes: > In article , peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > > WHY THE HELL DID DEC BOTHER PUTTING A TERMINFO CLONE IN VMS > > IF THEY DIDN'T PLAN TO USE IT? > They put it in because everyone was whining for them to do it, but it is > too slow to use for anything intensive as editting. Why is this? Curses and terminfo are certainly fast enough, even on a .7 VAX MIPS 68000 system with 30 users. In fact we have been running our VAX through a vt100-to-termcap conversion program I wrote that runs fast enough on an 80386 in 80286 mode. > The bottom line is DEC really doesn't want you using non-DEC terminals. And people wonder why I don't like DEC. > I hear gnu emacs works very well on non-DEC terminals on VMS (it > must therefore not use SMG either!). You mean it must use SMG... Anyone, back to the point. Has anyone got anything we can use to talk turkey to a VAX from a Televideo 950? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com