CRT TERMINAL EMULATOR INCREASES SUPPORT FOR LINUX.Van Dyke Van Dyke (or van/Van Dijk or Dyk etc) is a surname of Dutch origin. It refers to:
(2) (Cathode Ray Tube) A vacuum tube used as a display screen in a computer monitor or TV. The viewing end of the tube is coated with phosphors, which emit light when struck by electrons. 3.1 terminal emulation Using software in a desktop machine to make it perform like a hardware terminal. The emulated terminal is typically in the VT100-500 family, designed originally by Digital Equipment. software for Windows, with expanded support for Linux, and also Windows 2000 compatibility. Version 3.1 provides complete Linux console emulation, with support for ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. color, a Linux keymap, and mouse reporting. Many standard Linux utilities run and display better with the new configuration. "The Linux console emulation makes a connection to a Linux server easy to configure and use," says Jeff P. Van Dyke, president of Van Dyke Technologies Inc. "It's such a good native environment that if you use CRT's full screen mode with the Linux console, people might think you're running a Linux workstation, not Windows." In addition to the Linux console mode, CRT provides VT100, VT102, VT220, ANSI, and SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. ANSI emulation's. Other core CRT features include support for telnet, rlogin, serial and dialup connections, extensive customization capability with many font, cursor, and color scheme options available for each session, tree-based session management, VBScript support, transparent printing, and ZModem file transfer. Windows 2000 support in CRT 3.1 adds the latest release of Windows to the product's support for a wide range of Windows operating systems, including Windows NT, Windows 95, and Windows 98. |
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