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- From: jerry@marin.uucp (Jerry C. Hudgins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
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- References: <65778@cup.portal.com> <1992Sep14.071620.20632@news.iastate.edu> <3744@faatcrl.UUCP> <1992Sep14.191315.24011@news.iastate.edu>
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- Date: 14 Sep 92 22:18:53 EDT
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- In article <1992Sep14.191315.24011@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
- > In article <3744@faatcrl.UUCP> jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
- > > Pretty sure that the 240 is a monochrome beast while the 340 was the color
- > >version.
- >
- > No, the 240s are color. Believe me, I know; I used to have to use the
- > damn things every day, and I still have to use one occasionally when the real
- > computers inthe labs are being used. VT240s may have been sold with mono
- > monitors at one time, but most of the 240s here are color. The 340s have
- > vastly better resolution and color capability from the 240; better color and
- > resolution, in fact, than the Amiga 3000.
-
- Not to mention SIXEL graphics, much faster graphics processing, multisession
- support (either DEC's SSU protocol or two lines), and an integrated monitor/
- system unit. Pretty nice terminal, but huge and expensive. The VT330 was
- the monochrome version of this beast; the VT320 was character-cell only.
-
- The VT330/340 (and now the 420) will do either horizontal or vertical split
- screen between their two sessions, if you want. This is actually useful on
- the 420, which can display 50 lines.
-
- These newer DEC tubes are a LOT more complicated that the old VT100 series.
-
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