Aucbvax.6216 fa.info-terms utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-terms Thu Feb 18 18:01:05 1982 Re: tvi 950 magic cookie >From decvax!duke!unc!somewhere!smb@Berkeley Thu Feb 18 17:36:16 1982 The "magic cookie" standout glitch means that switching display modes consumes a visible character position on the screen. It also has an undesirable coupling between whether things like CLEAR SCREEN transmit, and whether TAB and BACKSPACE transmit; the default termcap entry for 4.1BSD UNIX seems to turn all of them off. And the keyboard in hard enough to type on as to make the terminal almost unusable for me. My own favorite terminal is the HP2621; the new 2621B is quite nice except for the CAPS mode glitch I mentioned recently. But it does cost more ($1300) than the TVI950. A cheap terminal I've heard well-recommended is the H-19/Z-19; it's VT-52 compatible, I believe. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.