[Info-vax] Terminal emulators, was: Re: Monitor for Alphastation 500

[Dave Froble]

On 9/14/2019 5:21 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2019-09-14 kl. 11:10, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>> In article <qlh2mh$td5$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
>> writes:
>>
>>>> I am typing this at a real VT320.  :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I do not see what that has to do with anything (today).
>>
>> Just to say that this is 1987 or whatever technology which should be
>> quite easy to emulate in software, so why is there no terminal emulator
>> which behaves EXACTLY like a vintage DEC terminal?
>>
>> I usually have light text/dark screen, where the bold characters are not
>> fatter but brighter than the normal ones.  I've never seen that on a
>> terminal emulator.  Why not?
>>
>
> Why have supposedly IT professionals so hard to adopt to changing times?
> These ideas that everything was better earlier and nothing works with VMS
> are just doing VMS a *major* disadvantage. It adds to the general view that
> VMS is something that is just hard to work with and needs special tools.
> My path forward have always been to make VMS as smooth as possible to
> co-exist in whatever there is in the IT environment. Trying to push the
> positive side of VMS and not unnecessarily display any downsides of VMS.
>
> Complaining about emulators is wrong. Learn to work with them instead.
> Or talk to the developers of the emulators to get any "errors" changed.
> If that doesn’t work, then just live with it…
>
>
>

There is the concept of "adapt or ???" ...

Dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, dodo birds, they didn't adapt ...

Well, the theory is that some did adapt, and are today's birds.  But, 
perhaps I've gotten across the need to adapt?


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