AT&T 605 terminal with AT&T 6386 DOS-under-UNIX?
Prentiss Riddle
riddle at woton.UUCP
Thu Jul 14 02:32:01 AEST 1988
We are in the process of evaluating an AT&T 6386 running Simultask-386
(aka VP/ix), which lets us run DOS under Unix. This requires the use
of a supplement to termcap/terminfo which maps between DOS i/o and what
a terminal understands.
We're pulling our hair out trying to find terminals and configuration
files which will let us run DOS satisfactorily from a serial line.
(The complications caused by incompatible character sets, screen sizes
and key combinations get to be pretty ugly.) One of the few terminals
which Simultask-386 claims to support is the AT&T 605. Unfortunately
its config file (/usr/vpix/term/605) contains the following caveat:
>> * NOTE: To fix keyboard mapping problem in 605 ROM, we no longer use
>> * The 605 in PC compatible mode. (+,-; /,*; keys are reversed)
>> * If the rom is fixed someday remove the following and change
>> * pccompat to y in section iii. In the meantime, we introduce a
>> * special type of pccompat - k. k means I'm a dumb terminal
>> * but I use scan codes so I send 8 bit chars.
Does anyone know any more about this? Is there any chance that the ROM
bug has been or will be fixed? How much of a problem does this cause in
practice? (We don't yet have our hands on a 605 terminal.)
And if anyone is happily running DOS under Unix from remote terminals,
could you please let us know what your solution is?
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