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- From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
- Message-ID: <3744@faatcrl.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 11:55:58 GMT
- References: <abeech.716337691@kraken> <1992Sep13.041545.25033@news.iastate.edu> <65778@cup.portal.com> <1992Sep14.071620.20632@news.iastate.edu>
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- barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
-
- >>|>Anyone know of a commercial or PD comms package that will correctly emulate
- >>|>VT220 and VT340 terminals? I need to connect to a Sun and use Word Perfect
-
- > What the original poster was looking for was a VT240/340 emulator. There
- >are **LIGHT-YEARS** of differences between the VT220 and VT240. VT240 is
- >as big a step up from VT220 as the A4000 is from the A1000.
-
- Read that posters quote again, he was looking for 220/340.
-
- > VT240 terminals handle 400x200 Regis and Sixel color bitmapped graphics,
- >with 8 colors. VT340 terminals handle Regis graphics (same resolution
- >and color capability as on a VT240), and Sixel graphics at a resolution of
- >800x600 with 16 colors out of 4096. (I recently wrote a simple script
- >to view GIFs on a VT340 terminal, and the results are better than on an
- >Amiga 3000)
-
- Pretty sure that the 240 is a monochrome beast while the 340 was the color
- version.
-
- -jack-
-