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

[Howard M. Harte]

On May 28, 2009, at 10:46 AM, shoppa at trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa)  
wrote:

> "Hittner, David T (IS)" <david.hittner at ngc.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, PuTTY is free, but it's not real accurate in the application
>> keypad emulation - I've never been able to use it effectively for
>> keypad-based editing. I've thought about volunteering to help fix it,
>> but have never had the time and/or sanity with two young children :-)
>
> I like putty when the keypad doesn't matter. e.g. ssh'ing into a
> Linux box when the fanciest editors I use are vi or ed. But it's
> not a solution for something under VMS or RT-11 or RSTE/E
> expecting a real keypad or a Gold key. (It is OK for emulating
> a KSR33...)

PuTTY is open-source, so could be improved if someone was inclined to  
work on it.  For most purposes today, it seems like "xterm" emulation  
is all that's really cared about unfortunately.

MS-DOS kermit works on Windows, at least for serial mode, not sure  
about networking.  But it has been getting slower and slower since  
Win2k.  I think the DOS COM port emulation was really crippled in  
WinXP, and probably worse in Vista.  I doubt anyone cares enough at  
MSFT to fix it in Win7.

-Howard

>
>
> I think after some era, the terminal emulator writers for the most
> part stopped trying to emulate real terminals and instead just were  
> emulating
> previous terminal emulations. Wonder if this will happen for CPU
> emulators too? :-). I think the documentation of all the woes and
> intrigues involved with emulating obscure CPU's to the point where  
> OS's
> and applications work will be vital for future generations trying to
> carry on the emulation work.
>
> Tim.
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