You'll be hard pressed to find many CLI apps that still run properly on non-VT100 terminals, but back in the 80s and 90s software usually ran fine on a tvi912,

You'll be hard pressed to find many CLI apps that still run properly on non-VT100 terminals, but back in the 80s and 90s software usually ran fine on a tvi912, wyse30, zenith22 AND vt100s as long as the termtype was set right. So in a sense, it do be like that, somewhat.