OT: broken/useless ansi - console driver??

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005, Brian K. White wrote:
>>Back to SCO...  Didn't ODT 2.0 (and SCO 3.2.4.x) ship with a default of
>>at386 as the default console terminal type?  I seem to recall having to
>>deal with that.  I thought "scoansi" came about wit 5.0.x.  If my memory 
>>is
>>even halfway accurate, sounds like they've come full circle.
>
>Xenix had "ansi"

It could be argued that SCO's ``ansi'' was the standard since for
many years they had the largest number if *nix installations on
the planet (including Tandy Xenix systems).  The SCO ``ansi''
termcap had many non-standard options, many created to support
FilePro and Microsoft's Multiplan (I think I have a boxed version
of Multiplan for Xenix from Microsoft which had many features not
found in the SCO version -- and of course a different binary
storage format :-).

If I remember correctly, there were many complaints when SCO
changed their default TERM value from ``ansi'' to ``scoansi''.

Bill
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