From: noemail@basdxcqvbe.com   
      
   On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 23:22:38 -0700 (PDT)   
   "muta...@gmail.com"  wrote:   
      
   > On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 3:59:50 PM UTC+10, Rod Pemberton wrote:   
   >   
   > > All I know is that the most powerful terminal I ever   
   > > used was a VT220. Of course, that was pre-html.   
   > >   
   > > VT220   
   > > -ANSI escape sequences   
   > > -international character sets   
   > > -define new character sets   
   >   
   > And would you consider HTML to be "just another   
   > terminal like the VT220"?   
   >   
      
   No.  I'd consider it to be a layer or protocol   
   like ANSI escape sequences.   
      
   > Or is HTML considered to be a different paradigm?   
      
   The point was that, if an ancient terminal can handle   
   ANSI escape sequences, then a modern terminal could in   
   theory do html or postscript, or perhaps a sufficiently   
   useful limited subset of them.   
      
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