DEC VT102

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Sun Nov 22 20:41:01 1998

On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Max Eskin wrote:

> Why do you think that is? It shouldn't be too difficult to duplicate a
> VT100; after all, the specs are available.

Two problems: hardware mapping (e.g., keyboard differences, screen mode
differences, etc), and incomplete specs. No spec is ever complete. The
hardest part of emulating another machine is testing all of the possible
cases (sometimes unbounded) and emulating the incorrect behavior as well
as the correct.

Having said that, I don't recall having many problems using VT100
emulators with VMS as long as you SET TERM/NOWRAP and maybe another
setting which now eludes me.

-- Doug
Received on Sun Nov 22 1998 - 20:41:01 GMT