30 May
2009
30 May
'09
8:02 a.m.
Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:36 AM, bfranchuk at
jetnet.ab.ca
<bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
Hmm, I'm pretty sure I've used a VT220 with VTEDIT. I could try again
tonight... (Well, okay, I don't have any VT220 anymore, but I have
VT320, VT420, VT510, VT520 and VT525 to test with.)
> PS. Still wondering ... did a VT220 work
with a PDP8 running OS/8?
Yes. I did it in the 1980s (in large part because the VT220 had 20mA
built-in). I don't remember the terminal settings, though.
What did not work was the VTEDIT TECO macro. There's something
inexact about the VT52 emulation in a VT220. The cheapest solution at
the time was to get a real VT52 (about $50 to buy and $30 to ship).
That's what I did. If you are just doing rather ordinary things with
OS/8, a VT220 should
work just fine.
I never saw any problems at all with anything, using a VT100 or more
modern, with OS/8. Most programs expected it to be in VT52-mode, though.
Johnny
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