DEC VT102 question

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Tue May 4 18:05:54 2004

> > Those are DECword (a.k.a., WPS) keycaps. The gold key is the dead
> > giveaway -- WPS used that as a command prefix, similar to the way TECO
> > and Emacs use ESC.
>
> Yep... also EDT uses "PF1" a lot, but it was only called the "Gold Key"
> in WPS instructions.

EDT calls it the "Gold Key" as well. For example on the AV-J756A-TC "EDT
Editor Reference Card" I have sitting here on my desk it talks about the
Gold Key on both the VT52 and VT100. Still true for EDT on OpenVMS 7.3-2.

                Zane
Received on Tue May 04 2004 - 18:05:54 BST