[Info-vax] Windows terminal revamped and open sourced

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 6/17/19 3:42 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2019-06-17 kl. 19:38, skrev Simon Clubley:
>> On 2019-06-17, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> On 6/17/2019 9:34 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>> Den 2019-06-17 kl. 14:57, skrev Bob Koehler:
>>>>> In article <qe4unb$qcn$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>>>> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
>>>>> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> An old hardware terminal such as the VT-line are today always
>>>>>> a worse solution than an termninal amulator running on your
>>>>>> everyday computer client you are using for anything else.
>>>>>> No matter if it is Windows, Linux oc Mac, they all have
>>>>>> emulators that are much better to work with than an VT520.
>>>>>
>>>>>      Except that the keyboard is wrong.  And often the emulation is 
>>>>> wrong.
>>>>>> Yes, VT-terminals are can be fun from an historical point of
>>>>>> view. But there is no reason to use them for real work.
>>>>>
>>>>>      Except that they work correctly, and have a correct keyboard.
>>>>>
>>
>> Define "correct keyboard". I last used a DEC keyboard over 15 years ago
>> but use the EDT keypad layout on a daily basis. Works just fine for me.
>>
> 
> Exactly.
> 
>>>>
>>>> Those like you are the ones pushing VMS over the edge...
>>>
>>> Over the edge?  What edge?
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure but I think Jan-Erik may be referring to the attitude of
>> "it's always been that way in the past, so there's no reason why it
>> can't be that way in the future." Those are the people who refuse to
>> adapt (or are incapable of adapting) to a new way of doing things
>> even with the changes going on around them.
> 
> Right! We must all help to get OpenVMS included in whatever computing
> environments are used *today*. Including keyboards, emulators and so on.
> 
> Another group that are pushing OpenVMS "over the edge" are those that
> deliberately are misspelling “Windows” all the time. It is not fun,it is 
> not
> professional, it is just childish. Dinosaurs…
> 

Careful there.  The last time I said that I got called a troll.

bill