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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: paging in the terminal driver
Message-ID: <918@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 07:25:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 27 07:25:20 1987
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: output pagination

TOPS-20 did all sorts of stuff in the terminal driver. Paging, cursor control,
the whole schmeer. Of course, they also had a seperate CPU for the ttys. I
found it a pain, particularly when I wanted to do my own cursor control
from APL for a terminal it didn't have data on. Even just paging can bite
you when you're doing stuff like that. Hell, has anyone tried using vi with
software tabs set on lately?
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