Purely historic question: VT200 text graphic programming

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-03-11, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:55:02 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
><invalid at invalid.invalid> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> vt200 terminals.  The vt200 wasn't a TV.  It was a character-based,
>> mostly-ANSI-escape-sequence, computer terminal connected via async
>
> I think the order went the other way -- I think most of the ANSI
> sequences were inherited from the VT52/VT100 terminals.

Ah. I didn't mean to imply order, only that the vt200 used ANSI escape
sequences with some extensions.

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