[HECnet] VT100 or VT100 Emulation.

The only good VT100 emulation is a real VT100. Or a VT2xx or later from DEC. Those are really solid implementations, for one thing because there was an incredibly detailed spec spelling out formally what every escape sequence does. If we are touting our favorite VT100 emulations from the past, my pick is the Stanford SLAC VLT (Valiant Little Terminal) program for the Amiga. I really loved my DEC Terminals, but for those that could not afford a real Tek terminal, an Amiga running VLT was all the rage. Too bad someone has never ported this to a unix system. This is my first post here, so it is a bit of an experiment. For those of you who recognize my name, I am a rabid, RT-11 addict who continues to run RT-11 almost every day. I have a real DEC PDP-11/83 in the basement with SIX DEC VT100 terminals on the desk that runs a Mapped RT-11 Monitor with Multi-Terminal support. It rarely gets used these days. I also run the identical software under both Ersatz-11 and SimH on my PC. The latest benchmark I ran under Ersatz-11 suggests a speed of about 150 times a real DEC PDP-11/93 using the Win32 variant of Ersatz-11 on PC hardware with 16 GB of physical memory and 16 cores running a 64 bit Windows 7. This is a plug for the VT100 emulation under Ersatz-11 which also supports most of the additional keys found on the LK201, specifically the SIX edit keys on the LK201 above the ARROW keys. The top row on a PC 104 key keyboard does not have sufficient keys to support all of the Fn keys on the LK201, but most are there. In fact, the Single Line Editor (SLX.SYS) on RT-11 actually supports the LK201 keyboard on the VT220 - although it does not make use of the SIX edit keys. I have a question that I have long had difficulty with!!!!!! When I run SimH on the same hardware, there is no VT100 emulation available, so I stick to a few basic tests. Is there a VT100 emulator which is compatible with SimH that can be used under both Windows XP and Windows 7 that will support at least ONE VT100 terminal? Better yet would be Multi-terminal support for many VT100 terminals (while I am asking)? V2.11-9 used to have about 95% of the support needed for a VT100 with the <GOLD> key being the missing aspect. So it is possible to be integrated into SimH. Jerome Fine