#: 12828 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    03-Nov-91  07:11:04
Sb: #12826-CoCo 3 terminal
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: Bob Archambault 76506,3544

Bob - ah.  But you can run a lot of non-graphics programs remotely.  Think of
it like being on CompuServe... it's a huge multi-user system, but it isn't
graphics-system-independent.  It uses characters.

Umm.  Bad example, actually.  There are lots of programs for OS-9 (mostly
commercial, like databases spreadsheets editors etc) which will run from a
remote terminal.  For that matter, you can run Basic09 non-gfx programs or
anything else which is character oriented.  Fancier programs look up a terminal
description file (termcap/termset) to be able to do slightly more:  like
clearing your screen, moving the cursor around, and so forth.

Very similar to Unix systems in fact.  The problem with gfx under OS-9 is,
there's no standard system yet.  Ummm.  Well, I think MW will be selling

A lot of people here run almost everything from character terminals. Perhaps
they'll chime in, as I'm typing this realtime and am sleepy .