On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:31:11 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > You tricked me by saying only DEC VAX/VMS programmers would know what it > was. In fact, many, many Unix programmers knew about curses (and still > do) and very few VMS programmers ever did. C wasn't very widely used > under VMS, and VMS had it's own screen formatting and form handling > libraries. > >From the context the "only DEC VAX/VMS programmers" remark applied to the VT-100. However, the OP is wrong about that - VT-100s were well-known and popular devices in the 8-bit microprocessor world too, together with assorted clones. In addition, many other terminals had a VT-100 emulation mode. IIRC all the Wyse terminals had that.
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