From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: terminal animals
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.470
Posted: Wed Dec 22 08:06:33 1982
Received: Thu Dec 23 02:35:30 1982

>From GJC@MIT-MC  Wed Dec 22 08:05:40 1982
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Tell me more about this terminal-support SIG.
Do the DEC people you know realize that even their "native" terminal
handling is rather immature in design, as compared say with ITS or Multics?
[It would put them about 8 years behind the ITS implementation ...]
If they hope to support anything reasonably sophisticated and easy-to-use
in their "VaxStation" high-resolution graphics terminals, especially if
it is intergrated with networking, then much more functionality and
protocal has to be build-in. Is there any indication that they are
aware of what has been done in this area?

-GJC