[SunRescue] Dumb Term

[James Lockwood]

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> They're all dumb!  By definition -- they don't "boot", i.e. load their
> code from some medium such as the network.  The term came about when

What's that make my VT103?  It's got a 4 * 4 Qbus backplane.  I always
wanted to add 22 bit addressing and cram a uVAX II board into it.

> "smart" terminals, eg. X11 and some of its early competitors, began

I know I heard the term "smart terminal" before X was in vogue.  Perhaps
it was originally in reference to something like the Opus Esprit, which
was a multifunction unit with many features besides simple terminal
emulation.

IMO a VT52 is an example of a glass tty.  A DECwriter is a tty.  Something
like a VT220 is considerably beyond both categories.

-James