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From: hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Telecom Software
Message-ID: <1990Sep08.125615.14907@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 90 12:56:15 GMT
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Reply-To: hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen)
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>I just bought Microphone II 3.0 for my new Hayes Ultra 96 modem.  The 
>software is good, but I find the screen response to be VERY slow (I have a 
>IIci).  I often find myself typing ahead of the display.

I've never conducted any "scientific" tests to prove this, but it's always
been my perception that VersaTerm and VersaTerm-PRO have the best throughput/
screen update speeds of all the Mac comm. programs I've used. My biggest
gripe with VersaTerm is that it doesn't directly support Zmodem file transfers.
I argued this point over a year ago with Lonnie Abelbeck, the author, and he
seemed dead-set against implementing it. VersaTerm 4.1 and VersaTerm-PRO 3.1
do support Apple's Communication Toolbox, so it would be possible for 
someone to write a Zmodem tool (though I don't know how efficient it would be).

As an aside, I recommend that if you're using a color machine, switch to 1-bit
video (using something like Switch-A-Roo) when doing a lot of interactive
telecom - color slows things down a lot...

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