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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-06-28 13:49, Dirk Munk wrote:
> 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/

Nope. I fire up Windows from time to time, but it's not my normal 
environment. I could try it if I can find a prebuilt binary. If nothing 
else, then just to report broken bits... :-)

	Johnny