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- From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
- Subject: Re: Smartcom II offer ?
- Message-ID: <6595.2b36e861@hayes.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 10:05:21 EDT
- References: <6568.2b344b48@hayes.com> <1h2sk8INNag4@news.aero.org> <1h2vahINN833@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec21.003957.28117@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1992Dec21.023526.9873@icaen.uiowa.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.023526.9873@icaen.uiowa.edu>, dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert) writes:
- > wang_dj@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (David J. Wang) writes:
- >>>In article <6568.2b344b48@hayes.com>, Bill Coleman writes:
- >>>> The moral dilemma is this -- how is this VT102 emulation? You'd now be
- >>>> emulating a different terminal, not a VT102.
- >
- > I'll chime in and second (or is it fourth by now?) this as well. It is
- > patently ridiculous to claim a limitation of your program is a "feature"
- > providing better VT102 emulation than other programs.
-
- I don't think it is "patently ridiculous" at all. First of all, I don't
- claim this is a "feature." It is just the way the current program works.
- There are several reasons for this, and one of them is the dedication to
- rigorous emulation. (In light of comments received here and in mail,
- some of that dedication may be misplaced)
-
- > I've heard of one
- > comm program (I think it is for the PC) that claims to emulate the VT100
- > *perfectly*. It goes so far as to have a switch which allows you to turn
- > on/off the bugs present in a real life VT100!
-
- Pray tell, which emulator is this?
-
- > Why not have an 'anal' switch
- > for Smartcom II, which greys out the option real users want for controlling
- > the number of lines?
-
- Come on! I'm not being dogmatic here. I opened the question to input. I'm
- listening. I'm taking notes. And you proceed to blast me as being 'anal' for
- a design decision made years ago on the basis of the information on hand at
- the time. Give me a break. That's no way to convince me.
-
- > I have only a Mac Plus, so you'd probably think I wouldn't care about this.
- > But I do, quite a bit actually. I run 'screen' on the Unix host I connect to,
- > which really needs a status line. It can run with 24 lines, but it is much
- > more convenient to have 25, which my Plus has the room for. I simply wouldn't
- > use a comm program, no matter how good it was in any other way, if it didn't
- > provide me the capability for 25 lines.
-
- Actually, screen size in the terminal has nothing to do with screen size on
- the computer. The (virtual) terminal could be any reasonable size, and its
- display is then mapped to the scrolling window of the program.
-
- So, even on a Mac Plus, you could have 2000 lines by 256 characters. You
- just wouldn't be able to see much of it.
-
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