Assume for the moment you are running OS/32 and MTM, not reliance or
other software on top of OS/32 that needs a specific terminal.
There are two big issues you have with using a VT-100 emulator (or a
real VT-100, for that matter) on OS/32:
OS/32 defaults to using 7F (177 for you DEC folks) characters for pads,
instead of NUL characters. A VT displays that as a half-intensity filled
character cell. The actual original VT-100 turned on 50% of the pixels
in the character cell in a checker board pattern. You can get rid of
these entirely in MTM. Eliminating them from the console is more
problematic. When I have more time I can provide more detail.
OS/32 expects a control-h (08, or 010) as a backspace. A VT sends 7F.
This one is harder to fix - you can train yourself to type control-h or
do some more involved patching.
I'll have more time this evening.
On 08/31/2016 10:19 PM, Don Stalkowski wrote:
On Wed Aug 31 14:51:02 2016 girwin1...@gmail.com (Gene Irwin) wrote:
I have managed to work my way through a good deal of the os/32 setup
process but after the build of the new os the system seems to want a
Perkins Elmer 550 or 1100 terminal to operate now. I don't know how to
make the shell connect to the simh console in another mode.
Can someone point me in the right direction to finish this?
Hi Gene,
Can you post the portion of the console dialog that asks for the
Perkin Elmer terminals?
Don
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