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by cmrdporcupine 1234 days ago
Years after I got a 486 and stopped using my ST I often continued to use it as a dumb terminal hooked up to my 486 which was running Linux via null-modem cable. I did that right up til about 1995.

Atari was very smart building a VT52 mode into the ST, and the mono hi-res monitor was great.