The ADM-3A was an influential early video display terminal, introduced in 1976. It was manufactured by Lear Siegler and had a 12-inch screen displaying...
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Look up adm., Adm., or ADM in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Adm is an abbreviation for the naval rank of admiral. ADM or A.D.M. may also refer to:...
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text editor. The editor was written by Bill Joy for use on a Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal, which places arrow symbols on these letters, since it did not...
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with the rise of time sharing computers. Important early products were the ADM-3A, VT52, and VT100. These devices used no complicated CPU, instead relying...
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design. The ADM-1 was followed by the ADM-2 in early 1974. It had expanded functionality and a detached keyboard. In 1976, LSI released ADM-3A, one of the...
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the regular expression extensions out of that. Joy used a Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal. On this terminal, the Escape key was at the location now occupied...
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escape being conveniently placed in what is now the tab position on the ADM-3A terminal keyboard used to develop vi, though it is now inconveniently placed...
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pressed along with ⇧ Shift in editable text. A Home key was present on the ADM-3A and many other pre-PC dumb terminal keyboards. Its application here was...
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emulates an ADM-3A terminal [citation needed] in CP/M mode, so software will have to be set up for that. Aside from the standard ADM-3A terminal commands...
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of the ⎋ Esc key in vi, due to the convenient position of the key on the ADM-3A terminal. Other users, however, thought that so many keys were excessive...
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