modern terminals (was: printf, data presentation)

[Griff Smith]

In article <992 at vsi.COM>, friedl at vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
> Doug, you are living in a dream world, one full of idealistic fantasy.
> You may like your Blit, but for every one of you, there are at least
> 50,000 people with Wyse 50s at their desks.  For the majority of these
> people, a bitmapped interface would be massive overkill.
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I'll repeat Doug's reply: the AT&T 630 terminal is available for less
than $2k.  Support software for either System V or 4.3BSD is also
available.  I don't think Doug is dreaming; if you're stuck with an old
24x80 non-windowed terminal, it's more like a nightmare.
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