| author | Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com> |
| Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:33:42 +0300 | |
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* Old hardware terminal. |
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** VT100. |
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VT100 is a video terminal that was made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It was introduced in |
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August 1978. Its detailed attributes became the de facto standard for terminal emulators. |
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The control sequences used by the VT100 family are based on the ANSI X3.64 standard, later ECMA-48 |
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and ISO/IEC 6429. |
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The VT101 and VT102 were cost-reduced non-expandable follow-on products, with the VT102 including |
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the AVO and serial printer port options of the VT100. |
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In 1983, the VT100 was replaced by the more-powerful VT200 series terminals such as the VT220. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT102 |
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** VT200. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT220 |
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* X window pseudo terminal. |
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** luit. |
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Luit is a filter that can be run between an arbitrary application and a UTF-8 |
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terminal emulator. It will convert application output from the locale's |
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encoding into UTF-8, and convert terminal input from UTF-8 into the locale's |
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$ luit -encoding 'ISO 8859-1' emacs -nw |