Emulating classic terminals

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Sun Apr 4 19:26:25 1999

> Well, maybe it's donator's remorse, but I gave away my VT100's and 220's a
> long time ago. I never had any strong feelings about ANSI terminals, having
> lived without them for so long.

On the other hand, I've lived with them for decades, and couldn't imagine
being without them. They're the bread and butter of being able to
interface with a wide variety of software on a wide variety of platforms!

>What I would use is one of the simple display terminal routines available in
>the public domain. There are plenty of them which emulate ANSI terminals if
>that's what's wanted.

And 99.9% of them are lousy. (In large part because the current generation
of VT100 emulator writers have never even seen a real VT100, much less
actually read the VT100 spec.) For a comparison of many products,
both commercial and freeware, using an excellent test suite called
"vttest", take a look at

   http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95compare.html

Another very excellent resource on the subject is at Rick Shuford's web site,

   http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal/

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