[Info-vax] Kermit on Itanium VMS

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Mon Jan 4 15:21:35 EST 2010


In article <paul.nospam-89EC0C.20543504012010 at pbook.sture.ch>,
	Paul Sture <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> In article 
> <d24fd09f-8357-4aa2-914d-3eee8b9ae91d at m25g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
>  Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 1, 3:18 pm, Paul Sture <paul.nos... at sture.ch> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've a feeling VT52 support was there in the original Kermit, but not
>> > C-Kermit.
>> 
>> 
>> As Frank said, VT-52 emulation (and other DEC terminal emulations)
>> still exists in MS-DOS Kermit and Kermit-95.
>> 
>> C-Kermit has never been a terminal emulator. It works with whatever
>> terminal (xterm, console, whatever) that you use to access the system
>> you run it on.
>> 
> 
> But no DOS or Windows here.

And just how hard is it to create a DOS floppy with nothing on it but
MSKERMIT?  Don't you have some old 8088 laptop floating around?  I
still have a COMPAQ 386 and a Zenith 8088 that I use exclusively for
those times when I need a quick console with really good DEC emulation.

bill

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