[Simh] Errors when using pUTTY terminal emulator to telnet to simh.

[Jason Stevens]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Tim Shoppa <shoppa at trailing-edge.com> wrote:

> All those terminal emulators are semi-usable but really pretty rotten
> compared to a real VT100 or VT220.
Heh, I've been thinking about trying to get the parts for a vt100..
they seem very rare on ebay & whatnot.. plus it'd be cool!
>
> The only thing on a Microsoft platform that comes remotely close to
> correct non-frustrating VT emulation is
> MS-DOS Kermit. It even maps the Gold key (aka PF1) correctly. This
> is incredibly important for those of us who actually like EDT. I know
> I just painted myself into a really tiny corner by admitting that I like EDT.
> But that also means that I'm also really really picky and exacting about
> terminal emulation. The Gold key is supposed to be where God intended
> it to be, damn it, not what some loser later called the Num Lock key!
>

Wow, I think that makes 2 people on the planet, the guy that taught
fortran in my local college was an EDT fan to the extreme... I
remember he DEMANDED someone buy a EDT work a like for AIX...  He
lived in serious DEC withdrawl....



> xterm with a DEC keyboard (they are available for PC-clones, at least PS/2,
> don't know about USB) can be pretty good under Linux, but IMHO still not
> as good as MS-DOS Kermit. It takes some tweaking of the .xtermrc from
> standard default Linux installations to make it actually work well; most
> Linux distros ship with a really stupid and lousy .xtermrc which has
> all sorts of features that real VT terminals definitely do not have.
>
> MS-DOS Kermit also has a spot-on perfect VT52 emulation.

I wonder how those WYSE winterms would work for that?  I actually
bought one to use, but somehow managed to lose it in the last move. :|
 I wonder if DOSBox could be 'faked' into running kermit to talk to
SIMH... It's weird enough to sound like a solution......

Can you point me to a "good" version that you like to run on MS-DOS or
some kind of emulator?  I have to pack more stuff and move (yet again)
today, but I think this weekend will be kind of slow for me....


TIA

Jason

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