[Simh] Keyboard remapping, was: RTE-6/VM configuration

[Göran Åhling]

This could be nice if you have a keyboard that is formatted according to 
some "alternate" nationality design.
Myselft, most often using "Swedish/Finnish" keyboard design can get a 
few character codes that, as viewed using US-eyes, are quite odd, by 
just pressing my rightmost finger...

When using an eumlator, it might be of some interest to remap these, for 
instance.

On the other hand, I'm mostly using the PDP-11 emulator myself, there is 
a very nice function that connects a "serial port" (that also might be 
the console serial port) towards the emulator using a TCP/IP-port of my 
selection in the host machine. I can use any terminal emulator capable 
of doing telnet to connect this serial port (from the same machine or 
from another machine on the network). For example, I might use the 
command "putty localhost 3000" to get the putty VTxx terminal emulator 
program running on the same host to connect the console of the emulated 
machine. (Note: The "emulated" machine doesn't know there is a 
TCP/IP-network that does part of the job to connect, it just has a 
regular serial port).

With this method, all  keyboard/character remapping is handled by the 
terminal program, not by the emulator - Fix the problem right where it 
is, not five steps later....

So, I suggest you find/develop a nice terminal emulator for the 
favourite terminal of your choice, and if it is of your own development, 
I also hope you will make it available publically as the SIMH itself!

Best regards,
Göran


I suggest you

J. David Bryan wrote:

>On Sunday, July 06, 2008 at 11:45, Michael T. Richter wrote:
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>>A general-purpose remapping would be kind of nice, no?
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>Have an example of where that would be useful?
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>Beyond that, I haven't encountered a situation where remapping would be 
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