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From: bazyar@ernie (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: VT100- why?
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Date: 12 Jan 91 21:52:22 GMT
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In article <10975@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>	Nobody answered my question why VT100 was so damn important either...
>just curious..

   Because VT100 is an industry standard.  Xterms are based on VT100.
Everyone uses VT100.  It's robust (except for my implementation, at the
moment :-) does everything under the sun, and is indispensable for Unix
work.
   Please, don't reply extolling the virtues of Proterm Special.  Proterm
Special is a duplicate of the Apple II monitor display features with sound
and maybe four extra commands added.  It's really weak.  Some people 
with 2400 baud complain that VT100 is 'slow'.  I disagree. I insist that
THEY are the ones that are slow.  Perhaps 5% of the text sent is vt100
commands in a typical VI session.


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