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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (1463)4/22/2000 1:14:00 PM
From: Peter Ecclesine  Read Replies (1) of 1782
 
Hi Raymond,

My past life includes seven years in 3270 and 5080 protocol converters at Datastream and Silicon Graphics, so I took WAP to be another VTAM, shielding applications from the drudgery of managing displays.

Increasing terminal bandwidth from 14.4 to 56kbps will work wonders on allowing applications to use TCAM-like direct display control of popular terminals. If you remember, terminal displays were organized in 40-character half lines, with erase to end-of-line and erase to end of screen commands. I spend days optimizing picture painting for 300-baud terminals. WAP was a new-Age way to impose the same EOL/EEOS etc fidley display jargon on applications

VT-100 vs TeleVideo 914 display sequences, 900 characters to paint the screen vs 340 characters to paint the screen. THe bloated VT-100 became the market choice vs the efficient binary coded cursor positioned Hazeltine...

Same kind of market making the choice by the terminals they purchase, and application developers having to use 'termcap' files or protocol converters to achieve terminal independence. Today's Web creators will have to create display-specific and speech/language specific versions - no 'Windows' architecture will shield them from the telcom pricing of the links to terminals.

petere
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