Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-12 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Mouse via cctalk wrote: >> I'm not sure about the MicroVax II but on some other VAX and Alpha >> machines, the console port may be less capable than ordinary terminal >> ports in the way of buffering, flow control, 8 bit support and so on. > > The KA630, the MicroV

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-12 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 03/11/2017 07:19 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 3/11/2017 4:11 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: I can't run DecWindows on a MicroVax II with 11MB of memory, so I loaded the basic support files for DecWindows. Are you sure? I can run the old XUI DecWindows on VMS 5.5-2 (the

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-11 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
On 3/11/2017 4:11 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: I can't run DecWindows on a MicroVax II with 11MB of memory, so I loaded the basic support files for DecWindows. Are you sure? I can run the old XUI DecWindows on VMS 5.5-2 (the newest VMS that will support XUI) in monochrome on a VaxS

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-11 Thread Mouse via cctalk
> I'm not sure about the MicroVax II but on some other VAX and Alpha > machines, the console port may be less capable than ordinary terminal > ports in the way of buffering, flow control, 8 bit support and so on. The KA630, the MicroVAX-II CPU board (which includes the console serial port), has a

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-11 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
I'm trying to return to the computing days of yesteryear when people hooked graphics terminals to VAXes. I don't have a Tektronix graphics terminal but I do have a MicroVax II and a laptop running Debian Linux. Up to now I've been using the laptop as a console device and connecting to the V

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-11 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
I can't run DecWindows on a MicroVax II with 11MB of memory, so I loaded the basic support files for DecWindows. Are you sure? I can run the old XUI DecWindows on VMS 5.5-2 (the newest VMS that will support XUI) in monochrome on a VaxStation 2000 with just 6MB. It's not very fast but it wo

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-11 Thread Brian L. Stuart via cctalk
On Sat, 3/11/17, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: > One of the things that I tried > was running kermit inside the xterm window, I was able to > connect to the Vax but was unable to test the graphics portion. There are two things that come to mind as possibilities. First, if xterm isn't gettin

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-11 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 3/11/2017 12:08 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk >> wrote: >>> >>> I like using the laptop as a console because I can log my terminal >>> session >>> whi

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-11 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
On 3/11/2017 12:08 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: I like using the laptop as a console because I can log my terminal session while I'm installing software, etc. Kermit on debian linux comes without any terminal emulatio

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-11 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: > > I like using the laptop as a console because I can log my terminal session > while I'm installing software, etc. Kermit on debian linux comes without > any terminal emulation for some reason. In general, kermit under Linux (an

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-11 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
*From:* cctalk on behalf of Douglas Taylor via cctalk *Sent:* Thursday, March 9, 2017 7:00 PM *To:* General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts *Subject:* Tektronix Terminal Emulation I'm trying to return to the computing days of yesteryear when people hooked grap

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-11 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
On 3/10/2017 10:31 PM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: On March 9, 2017 9:00:43 PM CST, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: I'm trying to return to the computing days of yesteryear when people hooked graphics terminals to VAXes. I don't have a Tektronix graphics terminal but I do have a MicroVa

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-10 Thread Chris Elmquist via cctalk
On March 9, 2017 9:00:43 PM CST, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: >I'm trying to return to the computing days of yesteryear when people >hooked graphics terminals to VAXes. > >I don't have a Tektronix graphics terminal but I do have a MicroVax II >and a laptop running Debian Linux. Up to now I

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-10 Thread Randy Dawson via cctalk
ronix Terminal Emulation I'm trying to return to the computing days of yesteryear when people hooked graphics terminals to VAXes. I don't have a Tektronix graphics terminal but I do have a MicroVax II and a laptop running Debian Linux. Up to now I've been using the laptop as

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-10 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 03/09/2017 09:00 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: I'm trying to return to the computing days of yesteryear when people hooked graphics terminals to VAXes. I don't have a Tektronix graphics terminal but I do have a MicroVax II and a laptop running Debian Linux. Up to now I've been usin

Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-10 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
I'm trying to return to the computing days of yesteryear when people hooked graphics terminals to VAXes. I don't have a Tektronix graphics terminal but I do have a MicroVax II and a laptop running Debian Linux. Up to now I've been using the laptop as a console device and connecting to the Vax