[geeks] Recommendations?

[Dave McGuire]

On April 7, dave at cca.org wrote:
> >> There's some good reason the built-in "telnet" doesn't do
> >> vt100 properly, right?
> 
> >  There are several reasons.  Pick one:
> 
> >   1 - Microsoft couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag
> >   2 - They're too busy writing bad specs to actually read the good ones
> >   3 - Windows is so horribly bloated that parsing VT100 escape
> >       sequences consumes too many precious CPU cycles, so they "left a
> >       few out"
> 
> My theory is that it's to discourage accessing remote cli systems,
> or somehow make them "look bad" to anyone ignorant enough to fall
> for that.

  You know, I hadn't thought of it that way...but I'll be that has
something to do with it.

     -Dave

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