[Info-vax] VMS terminal support

[John E. Malmberg]

On 8/1/2012 8:49 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2012-08-01 13:22:55 +0000, Johnny Billquist said:
>
> Keep picking at the scab, and you might eventually learn why most folks
> decided to hate on serial comms.
>
> It was a reasonable compromise, err, choice, (many) years ago, but
> outside of a JTAG-type application, it's now a legacy connection.
>
> And for good reason.
>
> Someday, the kids will staring at those giant clunky serial adapters in
> some museum case, with no idea what a mess serial comms was.

Which I still need to use on production machines on a regular basis 
because sometimes that newfangled GUI interface stops functioning, and 
an SSH or Telnet connection is the only thing left to reach the machine 
on the other side of the country and fix it.

I also need it for daily for functional test automation as the tools 
that use the GUI are typically extremely slow in running, and break with 
the slightest change in the application, or platform that the 
application runs on, yet the CLI continues to be backwards compatible.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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