[Info-vax] HP open sources the Palm operating system (WebOS)

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:02:03 -0800, John Wallace wrote:

> On Dec 14, 2:11 pm, Paul Sture <p... at sture.ch> wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:41:49 +0100, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> > Paul Sture wrote 2011-12-14 13:00:
>> >> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:33:00 +0100, MG wrote:
>>
>> >>> For all the faults of the iPad and iOS, I do really miss the
>> >>> program "iSSH" a lot!  It included a very capable X server and it
>> >>> was able to run DECwindows with unpatched VMS V8.4 over SSH.  A
>> >>> very nice touch, if I may say so.  I even have a video on my
>> >>> website at DR (hosted at YouTube) demonstrating this.
>>
>> >> One of my friends uses his iPhone extensively for logging into
>> >> servers and checking the status of out of hours jobs.  He started
>> >> out by Jailbreaking it to get the apps he wanted, but last time I
>> >> enquired he didn't need to do that any more.
>>
>> > I tested a few telnet apps for my Android (SonyEricson Xperia 10) but
>> > never found anything that actualy "worked". I did get the "Username:"
>> > prompt sometimes but it usualy crashed soon after that.
>>
>> I really wouldn't recommend telnet for logging into remote servers. I
>> use ssh everywhere nowadays, even on my home LAN.
>>
>> Are there any decent ssh apps for Android?
>>
>> --
>> Paul Sture
> 
> Maybe someone round here will have tried Better Terminal Emulator Pro?
> 
> It's on my "when I get a roundtoit" list (but fairly low down). It costs
> a few dollars, and first attracted my attention because it's one way of
> getting SIMH precompiled for Android (other ways may come for free but
> involve too much effort for my available free time, e.g. starting from
> source, Android SDK, etc).
> 
> And when you've got SIMH, what else can you have? You can have VAX/ VMS.
> Or a PDP11 and a PDP11 OS. Or... well, lots of things. I wonder if
> VAXELN target environment runs under SIMH (don't see why not, but).
> 
> How silly is that.
> 
> Part of the reason it's fairly low down my list is that I like a phone
> that works as a phone, primarily. I had a ZTE Blade (as a "free"
> upgrade) about a year ago but after a few weeks of poor battery life,
> poor touch compatibility with my fingers, poor signal handling in
> marginal areas (er, Oxford to Banbury a marginal area?), poor camera,
> etc I gave up. The price was right though.
> 
> Instead, I upgraded to a 2nd hand Nokia E71 (vintage 2008 or so) which
> does everything I need, even gets signal between Oxford and Banbury, has
> decent battery life, a keyboard, and a usable camera. Plus it runs my
> paid-for TomTom for Symbian, also from a few years ago (who needs up to
> date maps). But there's not much chance of the E71 running VMS (though
> in principle the Nokias can do VNC, I used to have VNC on my E65).
> 
> So, who's tried (or willing to try) Better Terminal Emulator Pro?

I have. Works fine for me. I later read that the free version is good 
enough for running SIMH, but they're both very cheap.

I've been playing with SIMH for years (and am even writing a new emulator 
using its framework). It's a good toy on my phone, even if it only uses 
one of the cores!  .-)

I've tried VMS and also BSD 4.2. Both were fine although I had to learn 
some incantations to get the right keystrokes in there. I'm going to have 
a go at UNIX v6 on the PDP-11, but since I've got an SBC6120 I probably 
won't worry about OS/8...



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