Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: Re: Looking for a full-featured terminal Message-ID: <8181@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 28 Jun 88 21:07:31 GMT References: <758@lakesys.UUCP> <3249@encore.UUCP> <783@lakesys.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 10 In article <783@lakesys.UUCP> craig@lakesys.UUCP (Craig Stodolenak) writes: >Just what is this "magic cookie" several of you speak of? "Magic cookie" in this context refers to the usurping of a character cell in the display memory to store an "attribute shift" instruction, as opposed to storing attributes in a parallel set of bits. Magic cookies introduce gratuitous "glitches" into the display and make it considerably more difficult to program display operations, as well as constraining possible display layouts. There is really no excuse for such crude technology in modern times, and some of us think you should refuse to support vendors who design such junk.