[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

[Alan Frisbie]

On 11/2/2010 3:45 PM, FredK wrote:

> I'm an antique.  One of my "claims to fame" was that when the first
> VAXstation and VWS V1.0 came out - I took a basic VT200 emulator and
> replaced the VT100 emulator on VWS.  Fun stuff.  Written in C, loaded into
> paged pool, executed in kernel mode at AST 2.  I took that basic emulator
> through the VT300/400/500 and invented a number of the "workstation" escape
> sequences and lots of fun stuff

One of the terminal emulator features in VWS that I enjoyed was
the escape sequence to shrink the window to an icon.   Unless I
am a complete bozo, that feature is missing in the current DECterm.
I had a symbol ICON defined for that escape sequence and could
just type "ICON".   Very handy.

Alan