[TUHS] Seeking wisdom from Unix Greybeards

[Clem Cole]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 1:57 PM Greg A. Woods <woods at robohack.ca> wrote:

> As an aside, the DEC VT100 terminal was an early (it came out a year before
> X3.64)

Yup, It was spec'ed at least a year ahead and its the code was
committed before the standard was even in a draft vote.



> and relatively complete (for a video terminal application) implementation
> of X3.64.
>
Although different from and the missing stuff was a bear.  Originally,
VT100 !=  X3.64       which has caused many issues over the years.  The big
issue was the lack of a proper insert/delete, it used scrolling regions
instead.  Kudos to Mary Ann for working through that whole mess years ago!
That's why back in the day, I preferred the H19 and later the Ambassador ;-)

My memory is that was ECMA that got the DEC changes/differences added/put
back/made legal.  But originally, there were not.   At one point, I had a
copy of the internal DEC documentation (which I think I got from Tom Kent
who wrote much of the rom code and had been on the committee for DEC at one
point, but I don't remember).

Clem
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