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Le 30 mars 2016 10:07, Sean Kamath <kam...@moltingpenguin.com> a écrit :
>
> Still using a Wyse (50?) on my Ultrasparc 80.
>
> In college, we had these weird DEC PC’s that we used as VT100 compatible
> terminals.
>
> There were so many. The VT100 was the prototype what XTerm emulated.
>
> Sean
>
> > On Mar 29, 2016, at 5:18 AM, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net>
> wrote:
> > Some things to search for:
> > * DEC VT100 (a terminal that still influcences the standards today)
> > * DEC VT52 (a terminal with an easier to understand command set)
> > * ADM3A (a terminal that was old when the DEC vt100 came out)
> > * DECwriter (printing terminal. DECwriter II was a beautiful machine)
> > * TI Silent 700 ("home oriented" printing terminal. At the time, in the
> > US, it was illegal to attach non-telephone company equipment to the
> > telephone company's phone lines...)
> > * ASCII (the non-IBM standard character coding system)
> > * EBCDIC (the IBM standard)
> > * ASR33 (one of the earliest printing terminals. And why we use
> > "TTY" today in the Unix world! If you wonder why unix commands are so
> > short, imagine typing on this...)
> > * Tektronix 4010 (In case you thought terminals were dull and graphics
> > free...and I suspect a LOT of people who have been rolling their eyes at
> > everything I've said up to now will have their eyes bug out a bit when
> > they figure out how these things work)
> >
> > Anything more than that (and probably a lot less than that), probably
> > best to ask me off list. :) (and yes, I've glossed over and simplified
> > a few things here)
> >
> > Nick.
>
You may have also a look at the ncd 88k terminal which was also a very common
terminal. Wikipedia has a small article about this at "X terminal".
Éric
