VT100 under SIMH

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Wed Sep 1 10:34:24 2004

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, John Allain wrote:

> Being able to meet Bob Supnik personally at the VCFe (Thanks to
> Sellam), I bid any reservations against using SIMH farewell.
> Have had a hell of a nice time since then. Turns out my oldish PC (4.5
> years) has the same speed as my best microVAX (<5Vups), as an aside.
For some it works, for others it doesn't. SimH does not do exact
simulation (for at least PDP-11 and VAX architectures) so its
machine footprint to the operating system software is rather
messy and confusing. That said.. it's decent. I use it for
VAX, mostly.

> As I understand it, the way to get a decent screen up under the current
> SIMH arrangement is to run it networked to another machine with either
> X11 services or rlogin and there you can get the screen that you want.
Correct. So good luck on standalone systems, or on Win32 platforms in
a command window. I did a VT module for it, as well as someone else,
but Bob dumped it and favored the "telnet console" method.

--f
Received on Wed Sep 01 2004 - 10:34:24 BST