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From: rjd@brunix (Rob Demillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What an Atarian is
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Date: 29 Mar 89 15:59:55 GMT
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In article <1951@uwovax.uwo.ca> 35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>	By the way, IBM's running Procomm - supposedly one of the best terminal
>emulators for the IBM can not dislay a proper VT-100 screen and yet Uniterm can.
>I think that this says something about the "lowly" ST.
>
>Kevin-john Conway

No, it just says something about the programming of both packages.
There is *no* hardware/software reason why the PROCOMM package for
the IBM should not be able to perfectly emulate a VT-100, as well
as a VT-2xx and a Tektronix 40xx. It just doesn't because the programmers
did not spend enough time debugging/writing code.

(For that matter, UniTerm is not without its bugs: the Tektronix
code to return to VTxxx mode is not faithfully emulated.)

UniTerm is more a testimony to the patience/endurance/ability of
Simon Poole than the ST.


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