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From: fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: JR-Comm VT100 emulation
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.154102.1424@dayton.saic.com>
Date: 4 Jan 91 19:41:01 GMT
References: <600@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <37397@cup.portal.com> <647@faatcrl.UUCP>  <37526@cup.portal.com>
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In article <37526@cup.portal.com>, thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
> fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) in <1991Jan2.095359.1418@dayton.saic.com>
> writes:
> 
> 	> 
> 	> 	 80 x 24 with standard characters in 80-column mode
> 	> 	132 x 24 with standard characters in 132-column mode
> 	> 	 40 x 24 with double-wide characters in 80-column mode
> 	> 	 66 x 24 with double-wide characters in 132-column mode
> 
> 	I don't believe a real VT100 can do either 40 or 66 lines of text on
> 	the screen.  My book says "24 lines X 80 characters or 14 lines X 132
> 	characters ... (24 X 132 with Advanced Video Option)".  I don't see
> 	anywhere it saying it can handle 40 or 66 lines on the screen.  The
> 	new VT420 series can do that.  Maybe you are mistaken.
> 
> Huh?  Not even a VT100 with a Retro-Graphics card with do 40 or 66 lines.
> 
> Looks like you misread my original lines (shown at the beginning of this
> reply for reference); in all four examples, it should be painfully clear that
> "N x 24" means {80,132,40,66} columns by 24 lines.  (And, note: 40 = 80/2 and
> 66 = 132/2 (where the "2" is from being "double wide")).

	YUP, I did.  Fingers were working faster than the old brain that day.
What I read and what I saw were two different things.  I missed the double-wide
character reference and just saw the 40X24 and 66X24 reference.  Oh well.

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