Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ALEXANDER.BBN.COM!jr
From: jr@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: While we're blaming the terminal...
Message-ID: <8612151539.AA06054@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 10:39:42 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8612151539.AA06054
Posted: Mon Dec 15 10:39:42 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 21:06:05 EST
References: <844@tpvax.tc.fluke.COM>
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 25

Oops ...
>> Oops, I think your ignorance is showing there podner.

>> The VT-100
>> terminal is so widely used and became an industry standard because it
>> implements ANSI standard X3.41.

Actually, it implements part of, or rather is compliant with, ANS
(American National Standard) X3.64, which includes by reference ANS
X3.4, the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII),
and extends it by specifying a lot of the things you can do with the
control characters.  ASCII pretty much confines itself to the printing
characters.  ASCII is also an international (ISO) standard, and is
called IA5 for International Alphabet 5 (sorry, I forget the ISO
standard number).  Many termcaps now include an X3.64 generic terminal
definition called "ansi".

>> Standards are awfully tough to come by, and
>> it is not a trivial task to create them. X3.41 is responsible for ASCII,
>> the 8-bit character standard that makes it possible for you to so
>> effortlessly complain about "multiple character codes".

No argument here beyond numbering.

/jr