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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: SCO and the attribute byte
Message-ID: <8126@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 19 Jun 88 04:41:14 GMT
References: <38@wzlr.UUCP> <691@nod2sco> <6957@ki4pv.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <6957@ki4pv.uucp> tanner@ki4pv.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
>Saying "sorry, but you really should have bought a different terminal"
>doesn't wash.

Sure it does.  There is no excuse today (and hasn't been for years) for
manufacturing a terminal that makes the programmer work so hard to achieve
such a simple effect, with less than satisfactory results even after all
that work.  This is a battle that should be fought with the pocketbook.