VT100 under SIMH

[John A. Dundas III]

At 12:11 PM -0400 9/1/04, Paul Koning wrote:
>  >>>>> "John" == John A Dundas, <John> writes:
>
>  John> At 11:26 AM -0400 9/1/04, John Allain wrote:
>  >> What I'm looking for I think is a command shell with VT100 support
>  >> that I can run SIMH in locally.  Alternately I could just connect
>  >> the actual terminal to a serial line.  Anybody do this?
>
>  John> I have done precisely this under Mac OS X.  Took a real VT100,
>  John> connected to a Keyspan USB serial adapter, modified /etc/ttys
>  John> appropriately, and there you go.
>
>Considering that Mac OS X has terminal emulators that (presumably) can
>emulate a VT100, why didn't you just use those?

The point of my exercise was to verify that a real VT100 would 
perform hooked up to OS X through a USB serial adapter.  [It worked 
fine.]  That it works as expected with SIMH is merely icing and 
perhaps useful for others to know.

The stock Terminal application in OS X does not do a complete or 
satisfactory VT100 emulation, in my book.  There are indeed other 
emulators that may or may not do the desired job.

John