DEC VT102

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Mon Nov 23 07:09:13 1998

< differences, etc), and incomplete specs. No spec is ever complete. Th

It must have been complete enough for dec to make the vt100. ;)

Specs are usually complete, my expereince it understanding them is
incomplete. It pays to read then spec once or twice completely.

< hardest part of emulating another machine is testing all of the possibl
< cases (sometimes unbounded) and emulating the incorrect behavior as wel
< as the correct.

True, but then testing if done at two levels bounded basic functional
and then edge of the envelope tends to make it far more manageable.
After all if broken at the basic level then its far to broke.

< Having said that, I don't recall having many problems using VT100
< emulators with VMS as long as you SET TERM/NOWRAP and maybe another
< setting which now eludes me.

VMS is a) tolerent, b) uses a minimal subset. Some apps can be badly
broken by poor emulations.

Allison
Received on Mon Nov 23 1998 - 07:09:13 GMT