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From: catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
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Subject: Re: when using termcap, get it right!
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Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 16:26:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 16:26:42 1987
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In article <16906@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>
>Speaking of terminals, I note that PC clones with floppy only drives,
>monitor, and DOS can be gotten in the $600 range, which is less than
>we pay for DEC VT-220s. Are there any places which are buying PCs and
>using them as simple terminals? How does it work out?

The problem we have with this is that our users fall in love with
the VT100 keyboard for editors like EDT and TPU, and then complain
about the incomplete VT100 emulation PC's provide.  In reality, most
times it turns out the emulators (PC/Intercom, MS-Kermit, CrossTalk)
are very complete (with the notable exception of 132 column mode), but
are limited by the fact that the PC keyboard does not physically have
as many keys as the VT100 layout.  Unix users of emacs and vi are
not usually as unhappy, since those editors do not rely as much on 
function keys etc.

					- Tony
					  catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu
					  catone@wharton.upenn.edu