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

[IanD]

On Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 4:51:58 AM UTC+10, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Scott Dorsey skrev den 2015-06-27 20:00:
> 
>  >
> > How important is good emulation to you?  Is emulating the vt100 line 25
> > bug important?  For me, it's not.  For others it might be.
> > --scott
> >
> 
> I have been using only PC/Windows VT-emulators for 20+ years and not
> touch a "real" terminal, they just makes me mad for the very limited
> functionality they have. No logging to a file. No cut-n-paste to my
> standard Windows email and office tools. Even as a "console" they
> are more or useless, the LA120 at least left a hardcopy printout...
> 
> There are some rumors about lack of compatibility around.
> Someone hade a script that tested DW/DH "problems". Worked
> just fine in both Reflection and PyTTY when I tested...
> I have not seen any compatibility issues that have been
> real show-stoppers. No compatibilty issues at all, actualy.
> 
> Jan-Erik.

Same

Last real terminal I touched was the VT420, that had rudimentary cut and paste from memory

Reflections was used for a while but the cost was too high for the bosses to swallow so we moved to something else which I cannot remember, but I used to cost $50 a seat for over 100 users

I have used Securecrt for the past 10 years, it does everything I need as I don't require anything beyond the basics anyhow

Where I work they use putty because it's free and because the majority of the systems are unix based

Maybe on some control systems a really dumb terminal might be ok or in certain harsh environments where a PC running an emulator might not be as robust (I'm thinking cold storage for example), otherwise a terminal emulator is good enough