VT100 under SIMH

[Fred N. van Kempen]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, John Allain wrote:

> Being able to meet Bob Supnik personally at the VCFe (Thanks to
> Sellam), I bid any reservations against using SIMH farewell.
> Have had a hell of a nice time since then.  Turns out my oldish PC (4.5
> years) has the same speed as my best microVAX (<5Vups), as an aside.
For some it works, for others it doesn't.  SimH does not do exact
simulation (for at least PDP-11 and VAX architectures) so its
machine footprint to the operating system software is rather
messy and confusing.  That said.. it's decent.  I use it for
VAX, mostly.

> As I understand it, the way to get a decent screen up under the current
> SIMH arrangement is to run it networked to another machine with either
> X11 services or rlogin and there you can get the screen that you want.
Correct.  So good luck on standalone systems, or on Win32 platforms in
a command window.  I did a VT module for it, as well as someone else,
but Bob dumped it and favored the "telnet console" method.

--f