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   Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 23:48:00 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

   xterm is the only usable terminal emulator.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 01:27:39 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Lars Brinkhoff
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     @weekend_editor Think is .. SUPDUP is not a terminal _emulator_?! :-) (I feel excluded .. why not ask #LispM hackers .. boom!)

     @larsbrinkhoff

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     Weekend Editor (weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 01:27:40 JST Weekend Editor

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     @amszmidt

     Ask an ITS person about SUPDUP. (@larsbrinkhoff might be able to add quite a bit.)

     The pedestrian terminal emulator in those days was telnet.

     But SUPDUP was a "super-duper" telnet that did what we'd now call something like curses, letting you move stuff around on a screen of a dumb terminal with smart repaints. This was at least a decade before the X protocol, but it worked nicely on text terminals.

     Very nice at the time. No idea how it would stack up today; I suspect it's just a historical artifact due to its non-graphics nature.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 04:19:46 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Lars Brinkhoff
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     @weekend_editor @larsbrinkhoff The photo by James J. Dempsey
     of a CADR TV display doing Hollerith card editing is the peak of everything.

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     Lars Brinkhoff (larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 04:19:47 JST Lars Brinkhoff

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     @amszmidt I made an emulator that realistically exhibits the unusability of a VT100.

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     Weekend Editor (weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 04:19:47 JST Weekend Editor

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     • Lars Brinkhoff

     @larsbrinkhoff @amszmidt

     So the peak of the art form was the VT52?

     (Especially the bell, which people described as the sound of grinding the gears on a 1950s manual transmission car.)

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 04:21:21 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Lars Brinkhoff
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     @weekend_editor @larsbrinkhoff

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     gunstick (gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 15:30:21 JST gunstick

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     • Lars Brinkhoff
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     @weekend_editor @larsbrinkhoff @amszmidt here is the demo running on the vt52 emulator of the AtariST.
     Yes, it has a vt52 built into the OS in ROM.
     https://youtu.be/dZOT5YgeTPU