VT100 under SIMH

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Wed Sep 1 18:13:10 2004

Ethan Dicks wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:37:52AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>>Any reasonable xterm-like tool in the Xwindows world has VT100
>>support.
>
>
> Close, certainly, but not necessarily close enough... I was using a Gnome
> xterm window (RedHat 9) as my "terminal" to klh10 running TOPS-20. For
> most stuff, things were fine. Emacs, though, didn't render quite right.
> I ended up hooking a dumb terminal up to a serial port and _that_ worked
> perfectly.

   "gnome-terminal" is NOT an xterm. It is an extremely dumbed-down
terminal emulator written and maintained by developers who can't imagine
and never even considered that you might want to use it to connect to a
remote system, let alone a non-Linux remote system.

   "That's what VNC is for." <-- verbatim quote from a "developer" on
the gnome-terminal maintainers' list.


        Doc
Received on Wed Sep 01 2004 - 18:13:10 BST