Real PDP11 model question

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Wed Sep 22 13:06:23 CDT 2004


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:49, Paul Koning wrote:
> > >>>>> "Jerome" == Jerome H Fine <jhfinexgs2 at compsys.to> writes:
> >  Jerome> Jerome Fine replies:
> >
> >  Jerome> E11 is normally about 10 times the speed of SIMH.  The hobby
> >  Jerome> version runs under either Windows or Linux.  VT100 emulation
> >  Jerome> is built into E11, unlike SIMH which briefly (V9-11) also
> >  Jerome> included VT100 that mostly worked, but was mainly missing the
> >  Jerome> GOLD key!
> >
> >  Jerome> Because of my requirement for 132 character text lines under
> >  Jerome> VT100 editing (because I use MACRO-11 listings), only Windows
> >  Jerome> 98 SE is able to provide this feature.
> >
> > You can also do this in the Linux version.  You just have to use
> > xterm invoked with the right switches.
>
> Or, you could hook a real VT-100/420/etc up to a serial port and get
> perfect VT100 emulation.  On Linux, at least, I don't know if E11 will
> let you do that on Windows. :)

Better yet, a VT520:

http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=1158

:)

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