“Sup'R'Terminal”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The M&R Enterprises Sup'R'Terminal was the first Apple II peripheral card to enable the display of 80 columns of text on a connected monitor.^[1]^[2] The Sup'R'Terminal is compatible with slot 03 in the Apple II and II+. As the first card making 80 columns of upper and lower case text displayable on these machines, it is the only card supported by the II+ version of Apple Writer and thus the only way to see on a monitor the true layout of text as it will be printed on a page with this popular early personal computer word processor.^[3] The Apple II and II+ had until this time only displayed 40 columns of text per line, half the characters included per line on a printed page. This transition to 80-column display was an early step in bringing the WYSIWYG concept to the Apple ecosystem.

A variety of clone add-on cards with similar functionality were released in the wake of the Sup'R'Terminal, including the Videx Videoterm. Apple's inclusion of their own first party clone of the Sup'R'Terminal, the Apple 80-Column Text Card, with the Apple IIe nearly eliminated the third party market 80-column card market.^[1] The Sup'R'Terminal was designed by John R. Wilbur and the firmware was written by Andy Hertzfeld in 1980.^[4]^[5]

References

1. ^¹{{cite web |author= Weyhrich, Steven | url = http://apple2history.org/history/ah13/#05 | title = 13 - Apple II Peripherals | work = Apple II History | accessdate = January 7, 2014 }}
2. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.filfre.net/2012/01/30/ | title = Robot War | work = The Digital Antiquarian | date = January 30, 2012 | accessdate = January 7, 2014 }}
3. ^{{cite web | url = http://apple2.info/wiki/index.php?title=A2_Peripheral_Cards#.5D.5B.2B_type_80_Column_Text_Card | title = A2 Peripheral Cards | work = AppleII.info | accessdate = January 7, 2014 }}
4. ^M&R Enterprises, Sup'R'Terminal Manual, page 47, 1980.
5. ^"Video Compensation Subcircuit," US Patent 4314245, March 10th, 1980.