On 12/30/05, Josef Chessor <josefcub at gmail.com> wrote: When running simh under Linux/UNIX, wouldn't it work to put a real VT100 (or clone or a proper emulator on an external PC), fire up a getty, then run simh from that window? That way, the device external to the CPU running simh would interpret the codes. That trick _does_ work for me running TOPS-20 under klh10. It was easier to do that than fix or replace xterm which is _not_ VT100 compatible anymore. I was unable to successfully run emacs on an xterm, but with a _real_ dumb terminal hung off the back of the machine, emacs ran perfectly. What's puzzling to me is that that at least back in the 1980s, when installing 4BSD, we used to use printing terminals like an LA36. If the install procedure used ANSI sequences, for the most part, we'd also see garbage. I guess by the time NetBSD 2.0 came around, it's entirely possible that its developers assumed you were on a glass TTY, but it's too "new" for me to have much experience with it.

Ethan Dicks wrote: I find xterm to do a pretty good job, compared to other terminal emulators. Are you thinking of gnome-terminal, which has apparently become the default for many Linux systems, because it isn't that good.