[Info-vax] Last Call for (New) DEC VT Terminals

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Saturday, 27 June 2015 16:40:27 UTC+1, Simon Clubley  wrote:
> On 2015-06-27, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
> >
> > The VT525 wasn't a complete terminal, it was just a 'system' box and a 
> > keyboard. You needed to connect your own colour display.
> >
> > I suppose that with todays extremely low cost systems like the 
> > raspberry, it should be possible to build something similar with a 
> > network interface for LAT/Telnet/SSH connections, and to use the USB 
> > ports to connect the keyboard and a printer.
> 
> Then there's just the small matter of running software on it which
> can be truly classed as a _full_ and _accurate_ VT emulator.
> 
> Hint: many of the open source so-called "terminal emulators" don't
> pass that test.
> 
> Simon.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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I think CDE's open source these days. Does it include a terminal
emulator worth looking at?

Anyone know what the licencing status of DECterm is these days?

FredK was going to start looking at a proper trustworthy terminal
emulator several years ago [1] but I can't remember whether it got
anywhere.

I can remember that FredK is no longer with us.

I can't recall any similar terminal emulator discussions in the
intervening period but my memory is not 100% and nor are the search
engines.

Fonts are probably as important as source code too, and may have
(or require) a separate licence.

What development and runtime environments does VTstar (the Multia
terminal emulator, which eventually was distributed with the VMS
freeware?) need? What's its licence these days? Ditto its fonts.

[1] FredK post to comp.os.vms, 1 Nov 2010, title "VMS on remote 
desktops". It starts with
"There has been talk (here) about how VMS is used in the wild by
the  "developer" and small user community that c.o.v. represents
fairly well. And how we don't listen.  I took it to heart."

Find it, and responses from many of the usual suspects and more
(me included), in various newsgroup archives including
http://compgroups.net/comp.os.vms/vms-on-remote-desktops/530852