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  1. My favorite... by msauve · · Score: 1 · on How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names

    was always Soroc Technology, which made great terminals back in the '70s. The name came from a rearrangement of the beer brand Coors, and their logo looked like the top of a beer can.

  2. Re:what went wrong is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Desperately Seeking Xen

    If you have VT-capable hardware
    You mean like this?

  3. Re:Is this really a file system? by ciggieposeur · · Score: 1 · on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early

    Does anyone still use a vt100 as their primary computer, except to prove a point? No. No, they do not.

    *ahem* See http://vt100.net/ . Or comp.terminals . Plenty of people still use VT100's and their successors.

    And other people (like me) still write terminal emulators that have to behave like VT100's, or things like TradeWars 2002 won't work right.

    ^H and ^W were used on Usenet long before Linux was around. In fact, one can say that Linux is the odd man out in the Unix-like world with it's insistence that backspace means DEL (0x7F, ^?) rather than BACKSPACE (0x08, ^H).

  4. Re:The opposite of what I want by MochaMan · · Score: 1 · on Next-Gen X Window Rendering For Linux

    Isn't this more along the lines you're looking for? Then add this if you really want to get fancy.

  5. Re:For those of you under the age of 30... by Sloppy · · Score: 2, Informative · on Less Might Be More
    Hey cool. That website has a copy of my old vt100 odditities page (original website defunct) that talks about some bugs 'n' undocumented features in the firmware. :-)

    Ah, good ol' "Escape bracket 137 q." Ain't seen an emulator yet, that handles that one right.

  6. Re:For those of you under the age of 30... by red+floyd · · Score: 2, Informative · on Less Might Be More

    No, that's a VT320.

    THIS is a VT100.

  7. For those of you under the age of 30... by PHPgawd · · Score: 5, Informative · on Less Might Be More

    This is a VT100.

  8. Re:PuTTY Experience by fm6 · · Score: 1 · on PuTTY Beta For Symbian OS
    The problem is that they can't use ^C ^V like the rest of Windows apps because the program running inside putty may use those - for example if you are using pine.
    That's nonsense. Text mode programs don't know about terminal cut and paste. They all think they're running on DEC-compatible terminals, which is what all XTerm implementations emulate. (Actually, they assume whatever terminal you specify via $TERM, but nowadays that's almost always set to "xterm", since hardware terminals are more or less dead.) They don't see mouse gestures. They just see input. They have no way of knowing whether these inputs come from a keyboard or a clipboard.
    Have you seen other programs that handle this better? What approach did they take?
    You've heard of KDE? GNOME?
  9. Re:What would be really cool... by shepd · · Score: 1 · on Is There Room for an IM only Device ?

    This + that = what you want.

    Of course, it still sucks. ;-)