On 2016-02-14 21:11, Zachary Kline wrote:
Hi All,
So as I delve into VMS and related concepts, I’ve come across mention of
console terminals and “operator’s consoles.”
I gather that SIMH simulates one of these when the machine starts up, but I’m a
bit less clear on how this compares to the real hardware.
When the VAX boots, it obviously has a prompt for boot options and such. Would
this be displayed on, say, a VT100 somewhere?
Yes. A VT100, or more commonly a printing terminal, so that you have a
paper trail of what was written preserved for later.
I gather SIMH itself doesn’t do much terminal emulation, so it might be
worthwhile sending the console output to another emulator which could handle
the keyboard and such.
I guess this depends quite a bit on the OS and machine in question too. :)
You always do. What do you think that window in which you are running
simh is? It's a terminal emulator. Or are you running simh from a serial
line? In which case, you must already be using a real terminal, or how
did you otherwise start simh?
Johnny
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