From: nowhere@never.at   
      
   On 16.06.2021 13:08, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 8:54:42 PM UTC+10, wolfgang kern wrote:   
   >   
   >>> And would you consider HTML to be "just another   
   >>> terminal like the VT220"?   
   >>> Or is HTML considered to be a different paradigm?   
      
   >> It is NOT a terminal at all !   
   >> HTML is nothing else than a text-based script which   
   >> is interpreted by the receiving browser.   
      
   > Is there any reason why sending a 3270 data stream   
   > including Set Buffer Address etc to a 3270 terminal   
   > is any different from sending an HTML data stream   
   > including  and 
 to a theoretical HTML   
   > terminal?   
      
   see below.   
      
   > Are you saying that EBCDIC ANSI is illegitimate too?   
   > ie sending x'27' [ 2 J etc in EBCDIC.   
      
   > What's the technical definition of a "terminal"?   
      
   it means communication hardware, not a program nor a transfer protocol.   
      
   A device with a keyboard and/or screen is also called a terminal.   
      
   so a COM-port is hardware, following RS232 rules. this AT.. commands   
   control a phone modem and not the COM-port. A modem may use RS232.   
      
   LPT was hardware, (p2p bidirectional parallel, null-modem etc).   
   TTY was hardware, (phone-line) used (ASCII) transfer protocol.   
   IBM terminal connectors were hardware, used EBCD protocol.   
      
   HTML and JAVA are just text based scripts,   
      
   internet uses its own transfer protocol [query| etc.]   
      
   ANSI ESC codes belong to protocols [used in printers/codecs/modems]   
   and got nothing to do with the hardware where they may be used on.   
      
   you mix definitions because you don't know the difference.   
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   wolfgang   
      
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