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Re: Are there any Open Source / Free Software vt220 / vt320 / vt400 terminal emulators out there?

by Douglas A. Tutty :: Rate this Message:

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On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:33:02AM -0700, Jon wrote:

> o;?
> I am referring to the old hardware "dumb terminals", which had the vt320
> "standards" etc. A client of mine uses a legacy database application
> that absolutely requires such an emulator (and is using Accuterm right
> now). A Free Software program that emulates these well enough and runs
> on GNU or BSD is what I'm looking for.
>
> It's much easier to PXE or NFS - boot an OpenBSD system on 333mhz
> thin-clients and run an NX client than have a bunch of expensive
> counter-productive windows machines around.

Does it have to be an emulator?  I'm typing this on a VT520 I bought for
$30 off ebay.

Doug.

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