Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!amdahl!pacbell!att!cbnews!gmv From: gmv@cbnews.ATT.COM (G. Michael Vrbanac) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: AT&T 605 terminal with AT&T 6386 DOS-under-UNIX? Summary: my experience with the 605, 6386 and UNIX Message-ID: <661@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 14 Jul 88 13:21:29 GMT References: <1095@woton.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 30 In article <1095@woton.UUCP>, riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) writes: > 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: > text deleted > > 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.) > I have a 6386, UNIX, VPIX (a.k.a. Simul-Task) and a 605 terminal. The setup screen for the 605 has four choices for "Terminal Mode" which are: norm, XT, AT1 and AT2. Norm is regular old ascii and the other three are flavors of IBM PC keyboards. I have never been able to make it talk to UNIX (nor VPIX either, for that matter) in any of the PC keyboard scan-code modes. The only thing that talks is "norm" mode which obviates the advantages of the 605. I have not been able to locate any documentation, guidelines or directives on how to make it work. Mike Vrbanac {att!}cblpf!gmv