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From: brian@scgvaxd.UUCP (Brian Zill)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: wyse y85  vs.  dec vt220 (?)
Message-ID: <817@scgvaxd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 22:12:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: scgvaxd.817
Posted: Mon Oct 19 22:12:32 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Oct-87 07:27:41 EDT
References: <70@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <7176@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: brian@scgvaxd.UUCP (Brian D. Zill)
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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In article <7176@eddie.MIT.EDU> jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes:
>In article <70@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> kmcmilla@ub.d.umn.edu (Ken McMillan) writes:
>>I have been asked to look into the wyse wy85 and dec vt220
>>I would appreciate any info (coments,prices,problems,etc.)
>
>The vt220 is more expensive and has a superior display.
>
>The Wyse-85 has a superior keyboard, user-programable function keys,
>processes incomming characters (slightly) more rapidly, has a
>tilt-swivel display base, and a slightly-expanded command set (erase
>X characters from cursor, etc).

DEC just recently announced the vt320 which is superior to and *CHEAPER*
than the vt220.  The most important difference is that the new one has a
higher resolution display (with larger character cell size, I believe it
is 12x15 while the 220 was 9x7 or something) and thus is easier on your
eyes.  It also has several of these "extra-goodies" that other terminal
manufactors have added to their vt220 clones, although they may be a
different set of "extra-goodies" than the Wyse-85 provides.  I've never
seen the Wyse, so I can't comment, I just wanted to say it is pointless
to look at vt220s anymore.  However, I hear DEC will still cheerfully sell
you a vt220 for significantly more than a vt320 if you *really* want one :-)

					--Brian