Purely historic question: VT200 text graphic programming

Martin Gregorie martin at address-in-sig.invalid
Sat Mar 12 15:45:01 EST 2011


On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:00:25 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> 	Note the last sentence starting "The name ANSI..."
>
Indeed. I'm pretty certain that the first time I met the term "ANSI" was 
in connection with the DOS add-on 'ANSI driver' that allowed programs to 
control the display by emitting escape codes - without it the DOS screen 
was treated as a glass teletype.


-- 
martin@   | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org       |



More information about the Python-list mailing list