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by bitwize 3769 days ago
Having actually used "dumb terminals", like the DEC VT-100, Qume QVT-101 and others over RS-232 connections and shoe-box sized modems way back in the 80's I found the start of your comment to be somewhat funny.

Back in those terminals' heyday, they were "smart" terminals! Dumb terminals could handle text output (sometimes to paper), but had few if any control codes and certainly not the extensive VT100 escape-code set for cursor control, formatting such as bold or underline, etc.

Who knows what Ctrl-K-X belongs to?

WordStar! And joe.