[Info-vax] VT keyboard replacement

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/9/2021 5:01 AM, Slo wrote:
>>>> On VMS?
>>> No.
>>> Unless you want to revive my proposal for how to implement a
>>> VMS-compatible layer on top of Linux ...
>> The question was about how raw terminal input is done on VMS.
>> Or perhaps you didn't read that bit.
> In my DEC days, we were using VMS workstations and EDT/EVE/LSE, but
> somebody switched to Emacs and raved about it. But it ran in DECwindows
> GUI, not on VTs. That's why I never switched to it -- on VMS.

I am pretty sure that emacs did run (not well but) text mode on VMS
late 80's.

I recall having to first run it once to compile all the Lisp stuff,
dump it to a disk file and then startup on that.

Anybody else remember?

Arne