[Info-vax] Radical command line suggestion

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Bob Koehler skrev den 2015-03-20 14:29:
> In article <meh4hn$pt0$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>
>> Any (all I'd say) terminal emulators (does anyone use anything else?)
>> has large scrollback buffers.
>
>     Duh.  Yes, there are real terminals out there.  I have one and I use
>     it.  Works better than any emulator, but does not have all those
>     scrollback pages.

If you are talkning about something like "real" VT-terminals,
no sane person uses them for any real work today. An emulator
has two major benefits. Scrollback and cut-n-paste to your
standard mail and office packages.

The only place where I think a VT-terminal has a slight benefit
today is out in the factory where they can be replaced with
practicaly no installation (apart from the hardware) or
configuration at all.

>
>     On the other hand, bookeader was a big step forward from VMS HELP.
>     BNU was not.
>

And the T-Ford was a big step forward from whatever was before.
So what? Bookreader died over 10 (or was it 15, 20?) years ago...