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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-06-27 17:39, 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.

The only "proper" terminal "emulator" I know of, apart from DECs 
powerterm (which isn't free anyway) is actually xterm. xterm do 
everything I have ever tried correctly.

I have not found a single other emulator that works right. Feel free to 
point to one, but I should warn people that I have already tried quite a 
few...

	Johnny

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