[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-12-26 kl. 10:07, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> In article <pvudiq$ouc$2 at dont-email.me>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
> writes:
> 
>> Den 2018-12-25 kl. 23:12, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>>> In article <pvtokq$393$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
>>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Nor is a GUI user interface necessary to have VMS on your desktop.  Use
>>>> a terminal emulator, or, would you ask for new VT terminals?
>>>
>>> I have yet to find an emulator which gets everything right.  Then there
>>> is the problem of having a proper keyboard.
>>
>> A "proper kayboard" today is probably the one that comes with your
>> standard desktop system. Then just make anything else work with it.
> 
> But that is a square peg in a round hole.  Which "standard keyboard" has
> the EDT keypad?
> 

Why does it matter? Asking for a special hardware (keyboard) just to run
EDT will only make VMS go away faster. You/we have to show how VMS can
live and participate in today’s general IT environments without any
special requirements.

Frankly, I do not understand the problem. I have used EDT professionally
on a daily basis for decades (and still do) and it must be over 20 years
ago since I even saw an original VT keyboard IRL...