[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

[smithfarm]

> There was a terminal emulator that was developed by a guy at the same time I
> was doing the VWS emulator (which became the basis of DECterm).  His was
> semi-hobby (think Amiga) at first - and very, very good - we did a lot of
> one-upsmanship - but he was actually a terminals group guy and a lot better
> than me and did things mine didn't need to do.  I believe that this was what
> was used on the Multia.  I think I had a copy of it squirreled away a long,
> long time ago.
>
> Fonts have always been a grey area - because some are/were licenced - so the
> font server was always the safest route to providing the fonts rather than
> trying to figure out what could be packaged for export off of VMS.  I
> probably have the fonts I developed myself for the VWS emulator converted to
> one of the X11 formats...  but I don't know that the layout of the fonts are
> the same - they probably are not.
>

I don't know if VTstar is the emulator you're talking about but it does 
exist, and it runs on Vista (and, I assume, on Win7 as well). It comes 
with fonts, too. I haven't tested it much. Now that I have a VAXstation 
with an LK401 keyboard, I probably won't be much inclined to, either.

VTstar does have one huge advantage - it's free.

Nathan