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- From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
- Date: 14 Sep 1992 13:49:07 GMT
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- References: <abeech.716337691@kraken> <1992Sep13.041545.25033@news.iastate.edu> <65778@cup.portal.com> <1992Sep14.071620.20632@news.iastate.edu> <3744@faatcrl.UUCP>
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- In article <3744@faatcrl.UUCP>, jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
- > barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
-
- >
- > > 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.
- >
-
- VT240 was monochrome by virtue of having a mono monitor, the VT241 was
- the colour one, but there wasn't any difference in the system box. You could
- plug a colour monitor into a VT240 and it became a VT241
-
- Steve
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