VT100 under SIMH

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John A. Dundas III wrote:

> 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.

   I haven't started Terminal.app in months.  It's so-so for a local 
command line and abysmal for remote work with any other OS.

   The X11 code for OS X from Apple comes with a good xterm, and rxvt 
builds cleanly.  Both behave generally well, and both can be keymapped 
to accomodate the remote OS's needs.


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