A good real terminal

[Ethan Dicks]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:31:54AM -0400, Steve Robertson wrote:
> Whatever terminal you use, it should have VT100 emulation. It seems like
> most classic OS's and applications will have support for the VT100. 

I mostly agree.  The one large exception is if you fiddle with PDP-8s.  The
'vtedit' macro for TECO expects a VT52, and does *not* work with VT220s in
VT52 mode.

Nearly everything else I've played with expect either an ASR-33 (i.e., no
cursor positioning), or a VT100.

-ethan

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