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From: bobbyo@celerity.UUCP (Bob Ollerton)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: Prime terminals info wanted
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Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 19:53:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 21 19:53:15 1986
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Organization: Celerity Computing, San Diego, Ca.
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Keywords: Compatibility

The Prime PT45 is based on a BeeHive DM30 with a few microcode
tweeks (just enough to scree the customers).  They stopped
selling it 3 or 4 years ago.  It was replaced with the PST100
which is claimed to be ansi like.  The PST100 was replaced with the
PT200 with is also sort of ansi like.

There is a terminal emulator for the PC which can emulate the
PT45, PST100, PT200, and other more popular terminals from
Pacer Software, (619) 454-0565 in La Jolla, California.

I recall that Prime Emacs had drivers in it for a bunch of other
terminals (vt100, vt52, H19, etc)  but these drivers were not
as powerfull (read fast) as the ones imbedded for the Prime
supplied terminals.  Prime supplies a fancy key binding for
their terminals which is imbedded within Emacs.  It would
be possible to build a fancy binding using one of the less
powerful terminal drivers, it may not be as fast...

Prime has no termcap facility for everyday programs.  There is
a package for block mode/data entry applications but its not
useful for interactive programs like Emacs.

Hope this helps.