That's what I wrote if I'm not mistaken, lol.
yes, I skipped over your previous reply. Mea culpa.
The typical Wang terminal, BTW, wasn’t a wholly dumb terminal. Pretty slick piece of engineering, actually. They had a Z-80 at 6Mhz (if memory serves) running in the terminal. When you were doing the normal mainframe stuff, it acted like a typical 3270.
But when you wanted to run Wang’s word processing s/w, ah... now things got interesting. The mainframe downloaded a screen editor to the terminal, and you then got a couple screens forward/back in your document downloaded to the terminal as well. You could edit to your heart’s content, in fully interactive mode (which wasn’t a strength of the 3270 style interface) and when you’d page up or down, the program would flush those changes back to the mainframe, which would then merge them into your doc.
Very, very slick... for the day.
Then Wang came out with a PC attached to the mainframe via the “928” interface. Humorous story about the name of the interface: The marketing and sales people were supposedly holding a meeting about what they were going to call this new interface card that would allow a x86 PC to interface to a Wang. They were bickering and going back and forth over names, etc.
Dr. Wang was in the meeting. After awhile, he looks at his watch, clears his throat and quietly said “We will call it the 928 interface” and he left the meeting.
A very, very bright chap. Got to meet him once. I was blown away that a CEO of a computer company could have that level of technical IQ. He was like meeting Bill or Dave from HP. Knew his stuff. Sadly, his son didn’t know jack, and after Dr. Wang’s passing, his playboy son fiddled while Rome burned, so to speak.