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From: wayne@teemc.UUCP (//ichael R. //ayne)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Looking for a full-featured terminal
Message-ID: <1683@teemc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 88 05:28:12 GMT
References: <758@lakesys.UUCP> <3249@encore.UUCP>
Reply-To: wayne@teemc.UUCP (/\/\ichael R. \/\/ayne)
Organization: TMC & Associates, Troy, MI
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In article <3249@encore.UUCP> loverso@encore.UUCP (John Robert LoVerso) writes:
>
>The newer Televideos are also nice, but the lastest models I've seen
>(905, 955) still inflict the user with magic cookie characters for
>screen attributes.  I can't believe that they add all that ugliness
>just to save a few $$ on static rams.  I won't ever buy (another)
>Televideo as long as they use magic cookies.

	I recently spoke to TeleVideo about this very issue.  I had the
name of an engineer who had posted a nice summary of TVI terminals, magic
cookies and attributes so called him directly.  After speaking to him and
one of his coworkers, I learned that the 965 should not suffer from ANY 
of the silliness of the previous terminals (no magic cookies, no having
to write the end attribute byte before the begin to avoid screen flash).
So you can go out and buy one of those.  Apparently, there is another one
that is good also but it has those blasted DEC, er, I mean, ANSI escape
sequences (uck!).

	Having dug into the TVI firmware a bit, I suspect that there is much
more to it than saving on RAMs (he says, cryptically, not wanting to divulge
TVI proprietary information to the net).

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Michael R. Wayne      ---      TMC & Associates      ---      wayne@teemc.uucp
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