[TUHS] Compatibility question
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Mon Dec 18 06:24:33 AEST 2023
On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, Paul Winalski wrote:
> One problem that the VT100 emulators may have is that they behave
> according to the published VT100 specifications rather than the actual
> hardware behavior.
DEC did pretty much the same thing with the Unibus to keep out 3rd-party
boards; the published specs didn't match the implementation, so your
non-DEC board would have subtle timing issues.
DEC of course just shrugged and said "Our boards work just fine, so yours
must be faulty"...
-- Dave
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