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From: sullivan@phyllis.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Decnet, VMS <==> Ultrix connection questions
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Date: 30 Mar 89 19:26:09 GMT
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In article <4744@charon.unm.edu> sdowdy@charon.unm.edu (Stephen Dowdy) writes:

>In fact, VMS believed that most terminals were ANSI standard.
>The VT series terminals adhere to a non-DEC standard! (at least pretty
>closely)  Your statement is fallacious.  Just because no one else
>seems to adhere to the ANSI standard is not reason to blast DEC.  Anyone
>could make their terminals ANSI standard, and a lot of manufacturers
>do go by ANSI standards.  (maybe not for terminals)

And is ANSI going to pay for everyone to replace the thousands of terminals
still in use which existed before the standard?  Come on.  Even IBM mainframes
can handle ADM3a terminals just fine (even if they did buy the software from
Yale), and if you are behind IBM in this area, you should hang your head in
shame!

Fred Sullivan				SUNY at Binghamton
Dept. Math. Sciences			Binghamton, NY 13903
					sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu
First you make a roux!