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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Searching for the \"ideal\" terminal
Message-ID: <5844@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 8-May-87 02:37:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  8 02:37:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 08:48:17 EDT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7290@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>I am also interested in any terminal besides Ann Arbor which has
>significantly more than 24 lines. Please don't mention blit class
>terminals which require special hardware of software.

Although one CAN (and should when possible) use AT&T (formerly
Teletype) model 5620 or 630 Dot-Mapped Display terminals with
special host support software, they work just fine as dumb X3.64
CRTs also.  If you know for a fact that you can never use them
in their "layers" mode of operation, then they're probably not
quite what you want for dumb large-screen operation, but if you
expect to be able to use them part of the time in layers mode
they're probably your best choice.  I use mine in ordinary CRT
mode quite often, even though I have layers available (layers
mode has lower effective throughput for simple text display).