Can't get the terminal to work!!

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2 total messages Started by Aschwin van der Woude Tue, 28 Jul 1998 00:00

#1000

Author: Aschwin van der Woude
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 00:00

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 Hi,

Can you tell me what to do with my terminal?

I have three Unisys svt-1120 terminals here, but I cannot get them up on

running.
The terminals themselves are allright. The show a cursor and so on.
I use slackware 3.4 on a 486 with 40 MB of ram.
Please help me!!

Thanx for any suggestions,

aschwin

Unisys SVT-1120 on Linux box? Not likely.

#1001

Author: Richard Steiner
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:00

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Here in alt.os.linux.slackware, Aschwin van der Woude 
<aschwin@flatnet.demon.nl> spake unto us, saying:

>Can you tell me what to do with my terminal?
>
>I have three Unisys svt-1120 terminals here, but I cannot get them up on
>running.

I strongly suspect that you won't be able to get those working with Linux.

SVT-1120 terminals are block-mode terminals which roughly emulate a Unisys
UTS-20 terminal (normally two PIDs in 80x25 or one PID in 132x25), and
which are VERY different from things like a VT100 (Uniscope-like devices
use a fairly nice but use highly proprietary screen control, and send the
entire screen at once when the XMIT key is hit, not one character at a
time like a Unix system would expect).

You might want to check in comp.sys.unisys to see if there's any chance at
all, but my own guess is there isn't a prayer without installing a layer
of very fancy protocol-translation software. 

I generally use UTS emulators like PEP or QTerm to talk to the mainframes
at work (UTS-20 or UTS-40), but I have an SVT-1126 sitting on my desk at
the moment at work which I use as a console for monitoring one of our
production 2200's, and my impression is they are extremely nonstandard in
their behavior.

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