What's the best RS-232 terminal?

From: emanuel stiebler <emu_at_ecubics.com>
Date: Tue Oct 12 07:58:28 1999

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From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: What's the best RS-232 terminal?


> But if you want to actually run them turned on when they are even two
> high, other than a VT100 (which is what I still use for the first level),
I
> have not found another terminal (except for VT100 clones) which allows
> stacking.

What about a VT52 ? three levels, and even then, you can handle the
keyboards & have some manuals on top ;-)

> In general, I use 6 terminals with 3 VT100s as the first level
> and 3 VT220s as the second level. With such old systems as the
> PDP-11 which don't have a Windows environment to allow more
> than one screen on the terminal at the same time, I find that there
> is an absolute need for more than one terminal at a time. In general,
> whenever I am doing some editing on a very long file (more than a
> 1000 blocks), I usually run 5 edit sessions rather than have a hard
> copy of the file. 4 edit sessions are for a READ ONLY copy of the
> assembled listing and the 5th is on the actual source code which makes
> the charges. One of the 4 edit sessions is almost always somewhere
> in the cross-reference at the end of the listing which then allows me to
> look at 3 of those references at the same time within the rest of the
> listing.

 Ups ;-)
 I always used different terminals on different computers. But just an idea,
why don't you get something with XWindows, so you could see all this
sessions on one screen ?

cheers,
emanuel
Received on Tue Oct 12 1999 - 07:58:28 BST