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lophyesterday at 10:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

The list does not include DECterm.

https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/net/dev/system/pmax_ul3/srvd.74/us...

Maybe it's hard to find these days. However it had the best VT220 emulation I have seen running on X Window System.

I will note that I have not seen a terminal emulator that supports the "double wide" and "double high, double wide" character modes of the VT100. Those giant letters were kinda fun. (<esc>#3, <esc>#4, and <esc>#6 if my memory serves me right.)


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dglyesterday at 10:25 PM

xterm does and some others, I posted about this and emojis a while ago: https://dgl.cx/2025/06/can-your-terminal-do-emojis

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unleadedyesterday at 11:33 PM

strangely enough Windows Terminal supports DECDHL but barely any on Linux do!