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From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>
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Subject: Re: PCVT's death
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In-Reply-To: <199806201844.UAA14394@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at Jun 20, 98 08:44:02 pm
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> 
> In reply to Bill/Carolyn Pechter who wrote:
> 
> Well, most machines support at386/ansi/pcansi/scoansi those will do...

Not RSTS/E, RSX11-M and Vax/Vms.  Everything is not Unix.
Some newbridge routers use vt100 emulation in the
console software.

> Well, console drivers are nowadays only used as a bootstrap into
> X for most people, so a task like this is not likely to happen,
> there is more important things to do...
> 
> 

Well, try to run X on a router 386/25 with 8mb of memory.

PCVT is very useful if you are talking to non-Unix machines.

Bill


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