VT100 under SIMH

[John A. Dundas III]

At 7:54 PM +0100 9/1/04, Shirker wrote:
>On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
>>  > 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.] <snip>
>>  I'm actually very happy to hear this. I have a serial adaptor hooked up to
>>  my dual G4 I intend to connect a terminal to, <snip>
>
>I am too - I have exactly the same plan, and on a dual G4 ;)
>
>John - please could you elaborate on a) what USB<->serial adapter you
>used*, b) the necessary changes to /etc/ttys, c) which OS X version you
>got this working under?

You bet...

a) Keyspan "High Speed USB Serial Adapter USA-19HS
<http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/USA19HS/>

b) Add a line similar to the following to /etc/ttys:
tty.USA19H181P1.1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure

c) 10.2.8 [PowerBook G4] and 10.2.8(G5) [Yes, I hooked it up to my 
dual 2GHz G5.]

John