[Info-vax] Windows terminal revamped and open sourced

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-05-11, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>
> I do not think that comparision is fair. MacOS is a client-only OS (right?)
> That is, you run your term emulator on/from the same MacOS environment.
>
> VMS is a server-only OS. You do not expect *VMS* to come with a built-in
> emulator. And such as the free Putty does support UTF-8, FWIW...
>

You are forgettng that one of the features of X-Windows is that you can
run the application on one machine and display it on another machine.
DECterm is a built-in emulator, provided DECWindows is installed.

These days however anything running over X-Windows really should be done
using SSH as the transport.

However, you are also correct in that it's much more sensible to just
run a decent terminal emulator on your local machine.

> Does anyone expect a "terminal emulator" that actually runs *on* VMS?

$ set response/mode=good_natured

Phillip ? :-)

Simon.

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