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Subject: Screen manager/TPU
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Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 09:07:02 EST
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The story I heard why the screen manager routines were not used in TPU was
that going through the SMG$ routines would slow down the editor, so they
wrote routines specifically for ANSII terminals.  The question that then
pops up is why they can't modify TPU so that it would use SMG$ routines for
non-ANSII terminals, while using the specially written routines for the
ANSII terminals?  By the way, I wonder how many people are actually using
TPU rather than EDT now (or EMACS!).  
(P.s. I find it much slower in starting up.  One of the few advantages it
has over EDT that I find very useful is it's ability to look at a shared
open file.)