"There are several options. One option is to work around the hardware limitations in software, displaying something like

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Another, much more popular, option is to move your email reading, web browsing, etc. from your 1970s-vintage VT100 to a graphics terminal. Have you considered the VT340, for example? Or an IBM PC, model 5150?"