[Simh] Interdata OS/32 question

[Davis Johnson]

OS/32 is pretty dumb when it comes to terminal handling. Basic command 
line interface, a line oriented editor.

Later versions came with "medit" and microemacs, both of which are 
screen editors and configurable for about anything.

It'll work with just about any normal dumb terminal. Pick one that 
doesn't display rubout characters and transmits backspace for the 
backspace key and you'll be good.

It can work with a VT - they were common at the time. It takes some 
tinkering to reduce the pain.

My current working system works with a vt-100 without a garbage on the 
screen. It will take some time for me to reconstruct how I got there. 
Part of the problem of sharing is that I'm running a modified simh-3.8 
that emulates a 3220, not an 8/32 and OS/32 09-02. And the OS may have 
been modified as well.

In the mean time, dropping back to the TTY driver might help, but you 
will loose command history and command line editing, lower case support 
and a few other niceties that probably won't matter when you are just 
trying to make it work.

An ASR-33 had a 72 character line length - you may want to specify a 
longer RECL if you do go back to it.

And I really do need to work my changes into current and get them back 
into the mainline release.


On 09/01/2016 03:56 PM, Gene Irwin wrote:
>
> Probably would.
> Would this affect any system apps?  I haven't seen anything in the os 
> yet that seems crt oriented.
>
> Also what about the other ports, is there a terminal type that OS/32 
> supports that's easier to emulate?
>
> Or is there a terminal emulator that does the 550 or 1100's?
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016, 12:44 PM Don Stalkowski <dstalk at execulink.com 
> <mailto:dstalk at execulink.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Davis,
>
>     Do you think that reconfiguring the console back to a tty might
>     work?
>
>     i.e.
>
>     Change  "CON: ,10,39,XDCOD=X2A0D,RECL=120,CONS"
>
>     back to "CON: , 2,16,CONS                 *CONSOLE - M33 TTY"
>
>     which is what is was in the default sysgen.
>
>     Don
>
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