Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: spiffy terminals (was: printf, data presentation) Message-ID: <13331@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 14 Jan 89 19:21:35 GMT References: <443@marob.MASA.COM> <9287@smoke.BRL.MIL> <9307@smoke.BRL.MIL> <10773@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <9312@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 42 [Will someone explain to me what spiffy terminals have to with comp.lang.c?] As quoted from <9312@smoke.BRL.MIL> by gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ): +--------------- | In article <10773@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) writes: | >Doug - the Wyse-50 can do all that, except the different font | >sizes, with appropriate software support. | | With enough software one can do almost anything.. +--------------- Err, he meant things like the WY-50's ability to split the screen vertically into two windows, etc. (I never did find a use for that feature.) Note that this does *not* constitute a windowing system. +--------------- | I also haven't seen a good mindowing system for dumb CRTs. | (I've seen lots of windowing systems, just no good ones.) +--------------- I'm still waiting to see what SCO Multiview looks like -- but I'm not holding my breath; I just grabbed UW (4.2; is there a later version, with servers for MisDOS and Mac, and maybe Amiga?) to put up on our systems. +--------------- | Besides, the question was whether "ordinary" users "needed" | such features. If you can really conveniently have them on | terminal X, then you can class that flavor of terminal X | with the 630 for purposes of this discussion. I'm not trying | to push a particular brand, just the general use of powerful | tools. +--------------- I know quite a few people (our clients :-( ;-) who wouldn't know what to do with a Blit; Wyse 50's are a nice, safe choice for them. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org (soon) uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser