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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software)
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Subject: Re: update on **real** 19200 CRT
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Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 11:37:34 EDT
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>In article <109@vixie.UUCP> paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) writes:
>>...The unoffical
>>tally shows the Wyse 50 in the lead, closely followed by a Televideo 950.
>>The 950's keyboard removes it from serious consideration, but I'm looking
>>into the Wyse.
> >		Paul Vixie
> >		{fortune,qantel}!vixie!paul
>Paul -- Stay away from the Wyse-50.  I bought about a half dozen at my former
>job, and loved them dearly (especially the keyboards!) until I started
>running Emacs on them... then I found out the hitch.  The Wyse-50 ... 
>eats a screen location every time it changes attribute modes on the screen.

The solution we've found here is to use "protected" mode for inverse video
(sorry, only one mode per family):  declare to the terminal (during the
initialization string) that protected regions are to be inverse video, and
then do inverse video by protecting regions of the screen.

Disclaimer:  I hate the Wyse 50, *especially* the keyboard.  But they work,
and if you are clever, you can get around the nauseating screen glitch.

--
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
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"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way.
This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of
complaining."
			Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal