18 Dec
2023
18 Dec
'23
2:24 a.m.
On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, Paul Winalski wrote:
One problem that the VT100 emulators may have is that
they behave
according to the published VT100 specifications rather than the actual
hardware behavior.
DEC did pretty much the same thing with the Unibus to keep out 3rd-party
boards; the published specs didn't match the implementation, so your
non-DEC board would have subtle timing issues.
DEC of course just shrugged and said "Our boards work just fine, so yours
must be faulty"...
-- Dave