Subject: Re: VT340 Stupidity
To: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
From: Vance Dereksen <vance@ikickass.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/20/2001 21:13:24
Well, I was talking about "interactive" in the PC-DOS ANSI.SYS context 8-)

Peace...  Sridhar

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Chuck McManis wrote:

> At 09:01 PM 6/20/01 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >Does that mean you would have to explicitly render each frame you would
> >want to write to the terminal?  That sounds VERY slow.  Too slow for
> >interactive graphics, anyway.
> 
> Yup. It wasn't "interactive" graphics like we know that they were talking 
> about, it was like "Unlike the 4010 where you have to erase the whole 
> screen, we can redraw a single line." I should take a picture of my VT340 
> plotting some time, Think of it as a fairly high resolution graphing 
> calculator. In fact, the VAX and the TI-92+ have some similarities in their 
> performance and their abilities :-)
> --Chuck
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