From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: Emacs and VMS
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.417
Posted: Sat Dec 18 06:52:28 1982
Received: Sun Dec 19 13:04:38 1982

>From chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay  Thu Dec 16 04:59:23 1982
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Yes, Emacs has lots of terminal types coded directly in it:

  Ann Arbor Ambas: original driver had problems at >4800 baud; not enough
		   padding
  VT100:	   pretty reasonable, actually
  TEK4025:	   Didn't work at all for us, but we have a funny command
		   char.
  Concept 100:	   (Don't have any)
  MiniBee:	   (Don't have any)
  Generic:	   Bug that caused bomb for terminals with no I/D line
		   capability.

Anyway, I hacked over the drivers we had and sent the results back
to Gosling, so maybe all the bugs have been fixed.

We also have additional drivers for the BBN BitGraph and the DEC Gigi.
(There may be a few more internally recognized types but I can't
remember them at the moment.)

NOTE: The names you use for the terminals determines whether or not
Emacs will use its special driver.  For some terminals (e.g. VT100)
the special driver has MUCH better performance than the generic.