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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!ficc!peter
- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: ANSI X3.64 sequences (was Re: VT100 scrolling region)
- Message-ID: <id.WCFW.VX2@ferranti.com>
- Keywords: VT100, scroll, control code, Escape, ANSI X3.64, terminal
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <18623@mindlink.bc.ca> <lj3vgrINNieu@news.bbn.com> <1hqbm7INN3c7@CS.UTK.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:39:52 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <1hqbm7INN3c7@CS.UTK.EDU> shuford@cs.utk.edu (Richard Shuford) writes:
- > In fact, when the X3.64 document was published (circa 1978), some
- > vendors, insisting on using discrete logic designs, objected that the
- > standard was so complex it could not be implemented. Most of these
- > vendors are now floating belly-up on the tide of technology.
-
- Actually, the greatest objection was that these sequences were way too long,
- and that a binary format would be much shorter leading to a lower overhead
- design (even at 1200 baud, which was pretty good for some areas, the X3.64
- output generated quite a lot of annoying pauses), plus (as noted) be easier
- to implement.
-
- (I thought a sequence based on the Lear Seigler cursor motion code would make
- more sense, myself)
-
- All water under the bridge, just note that OSI isn't the first over-
- engineered protocol out there...
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