On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 01:55:16AM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-04-18, Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> wrote: > > > Termite emulates an RS-232 terminal--a simple (AKA "dumb") ASCII > > terminal, whereas rxvt has a more complex interface that allows > > sending and receiving a variety of control sequences to represent > > when someone has pressed a key with a modifier key (like Alt) and > > other control functions. > > RS-232 is an electrical standard specifing a connector and voltage > levels. It says nothing about ASCII or anything else about the data > being transmitted.
I'm aware of this, but at the same time it's often the case in the tech world, as you are no doubt aware, that terms are overloaded and/or conflated. In ancient times, if you bought say a 300 baud modem, it would often come with a program that called itself an rs-232 terminal (or terminal emulator). It obviously isn't, in the sense that you mean, since it's a piece of software. Those programs generally used that to mean they were dumb terminal emulators. If you look at the web page for termite, it is clearly using the term in that sense. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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