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

[Dirk Munk]

Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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
>
Did you try Dave's telnet? The release notes mention a bug fix for VMS.

http://dtelnet.sourceforge.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dtelnet/