Just because I'm pedantic about this sort of thing:

In the current ncurses master source file (which is used by at least OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, every Linux variant I know of & probably lots more, but I don't keep track now), I'm listed as the author of the vt320, vt320-nam, vt320-w, vt320-w-nam, z340, z340-nam, dt80-sas (formerly known as dtx-sas), and as the contributor of supporting information for the ifmr entry. So that's technically eight entries, but really only two base definitions.

If you browse the source, you'll see that DEC's official vt320 entry consisted of "use=vt220". Absolutely useless entry, especially since the keyboards on the vt220 and the vt320 weren't identical and therefore the function-key labels didn't quite all match up. This made it almost impossible to use the official vt320 entry with any app that used function keys.

I also note that there existed two alternate vt320 implementations before mine, all substantially identical to each other - I believe mine was part of a comprehensive vt220/vt240/vt320/vt340/vt420 set I submitted, so it was constructed somewhat differently than the current version. The Kermit-based entries didn't get the function keys right for a real vt320, either, IIRC. And the version of ncurses installed on ccu at the time probably wasn't quite up-to-date; I'm fairly sure I hadn't seen either of the other two before writing my own.

On the previous subject of Wyse terminals, reading through the comments in terminfo.src reveals that Wyse couldn't really make a substantially bug-free terminal until the Wyse 370 or thereabouts. This despite being the second-largest terminal mfgr in the world during the wy50/wy60 era. I guess this would make them the hardware equivalent of Microsoft, just 10 years earlier.

-Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net