Purely historic question: VT200 text graphic programming

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Thu, 2011-03-10, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> 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.

But he wrote VT-200, not VT-100. I assumed he meant those (vt200) had
some exotic graphics mode. The VT-xxx series was pretty heterogenous,
although most of us think of them as more or less fancy VT-100s.

/Jorgen

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