[Simh] HP 3000 Terminals

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Thu Mar 10 12:09:10 EST 2016


> On Mar 10, 2016, at 12:03 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-03-10 06:33, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> More to the point, is their anything an HP terminal emulator could give me that regular Telnet wouldn’t?
> 
> You are comparing apples and oranges. A terminal emulator emulates a terminal. Telnet is a program for connecting interactively from one computer to another, and have nothing to do with terminal emulation.

True for most operating systems.  On Windows, the two tend to get combined because you don't have a reasonable shell or terminal emulator window.  So network terminal programs like PuTTY combine the telnet (and/or SSH) function with a terminal emulator.

	paul




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