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From: ggs@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Griff Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: modern terminals (was: printf, data presentation)
Message-ID: <11072@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 6 Jan 89 20:18:19 GMT
References: <19@xenlink.UUCP> <7328@chinet.chi.il.us> <144@bms-at.UUCP> <992@vsi.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <992@vsi.COM>, friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
> Doug, you are living in a dream world, one full of idealistic fantasy.
> You may like your Blit, but for every one of you, there are at least
> 50,000 people with Wyse 50s at their desks.  For the majority of these
> people, a bitmapped interface would be massive overkill.
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I'll repeat Doug's reply: the AT&T 630 terminal is available for less
than $2k.  Support software for either System V or 4.3BSD is also
available.  I don't think Doug is dreaming; if you're stuck with an old
24x80 non-windowed terminal, it's more like a nightmare.
-- 
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