Re: vt100 compliance

[Julian Reschke-FJR010 <Julian_Reschke-FJR010@email.mot.com>]

bjr@ebicom.net%INTERNET wrote:
> 
> > Well that sounds pretty stupid from them. I'd guess they morer likely
> > didn't know what they were talking about,.. but who knows.
> 
> I don't doubt this....
> The problem is...
> If you live in an area that gives you 2 choices on internet service for a
> (local, non toll) phone call....and neither know what they're talking
> about, yet 99% of the computing world can just load a VERY standard VT102
> terminal and get support...why should they care?
> 
> The providers say, Get a PC...
> The Atari support says learn to code and become a unix guru and fix it
> yourself or shut up.
> 
> Is vt102 really that big of a deal?  Connect has it....STalker has it...
> heck, even InterLink ST has it...and a dozen other free and share ware
> modem based terminals.  Can we not persuade one of these authors to just
> pop in a pipe line so a plain GEM WINDOW can run a TOS program inside,
> and support the emulation modes there-in?

Start the Connect shell in a Connect VT102 window and run your telnet
client.


Regards, jr