VT100 was a video
terminal made by
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) which became the
de facto standard used by
terminal emulators.It was introduced in August
1978, following its predecessor, the
VT52, and communicated with its
host system over serial lines using the
ASCII character set and control sequences (a.k.a.
escape sequences) standardized by
ANSI. The VT100 was also the first Digital mass-market terminal to incorporate "graphic renditions" (blinking, bolding, reverse video, and underlining) as well as a selectable 80 or 132 column display. All setup of the VT100 was accomplished using interactive displays presented on the screen; the setup data was stored in non-volatile memory within the terminal. The VT100 also introduced an additional character set that allowed the drawing of on-screen forms.
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