[Simh] RTE-6/VM configuration

[Brett Bump]

On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, J. David Bryan wrote:

> On Friday, July 04, 2008 at 14:41, Terry Newton wrote:
>
> > QCterm works for displaying WOODY and OTHEL in graphical format, and
> > also permits backspace to work.
>
> If you're finding that backspace cancels lines instead of the last
> character on the SIMH console, then this command:
>
>   sim> set console del=177
>
> ...will fix it.  BACKSPACE will then generate a character delete, and
> CTRL+BACKSPACE will generate a line delete.
>
> (For reasons unclear to me, SIMH defaults to having the console driver
> substitute 0177 when it sees 010.  The above setting tells SIMH to pass 010
> and 0177 to the program unmolested.)
>
>                                       -- Dave
>
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If memory serves me correctly I recall our H-11 console (first tube I had)
ran HT11 (actually RT-11 V2) which had a sticky for RUBOUT for backspace.
Seems to me (even though I never struggled with an ASR33) a RUBOUT (127)
character was more valuable during editing on paper than a true backspace
would have been (and more true to the original designs for those OS'es).

Just my $.02 worth. ;-)

Brett