[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

chrisq devzero at nospam.com
Fri Apr 19 06:58:23 EDT 2024


On 4/19/24 00:13, motk wrote:
> On 18/4/24 07:14, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> I believe that VT200/VT300/VT400 and 8bit gives the "best"
>> VMS experience.
> 
> Thanks all - it's worth a bit more thought, given that X11 is basically 
> dead, and that most people just open a windows or linux default terminal 
> and they 'ssh foo at bar'. Windows Terminal does do a lot of work on 
> terminal emulation and by default presents as xterm.
> 
> 
>> Arne
> 

Some may be pushing to replace X11 with Wayland, (ugh), but most unix
desktops are still based on X11 at core, with the user desktop GUI
sitting on top of that, and will be for the forseable future.

If it ain't broke, why fix it ?...

Chris





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