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Some comments:1. I loathe and detest the pejorative "green screen." When I first learned to code, over a quarter-century ago, terminals with a green-phosphor tube were regarded as a luxury, with a substantial premium on the pricetag; the terminals I had in high school and at the University were, almost without exception, equipped with white P4 phosphor tubes no different from those in black-and-white television sets.
2. Monochrome terminals (and monochrome computer monitors)of the past twenty years have often used amber, rather than green, screens, because studies have shown that while a green long-persistence screen is less fatiguing to look at than a white P4 screen, a medium-persistence amber screen is even less fatiguing.
3. At Touchtone, we have three actual twinax terminals: a 3489 with a color monitor and a 3477FA (amber), both at my desk, and a Yestation with a color monitor as the console. The last terminal we had with an actual green screen was our 3180, which eventually developed a short so bad it made the fuses go off like flashbulbs.
4. InfoWindow II terminals have mouse support.5. It's entirely possible to put an emulation session in a web browser, and even make it available for public use; we use our ThinView product to put an emulation session in a browser for our new "code-on-demand" self-service authorization code system.
-- JHHL
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