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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comm programs
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.062551.6144@agora.uucp>
Date: 1 Oct 90 06:25:51 GMT
References: <2053@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: Open Communication Forum
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In article <2053@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
:In <1990Sep27.002054.10228@cs.umn.edu>, jdege@ (Jeff Dege) writes:
:>   Sorry, you forgot ATERM (not that it didn't deserve to be forgotten.)
:
:Nope... I say that for two reasons...
:
:1. Aterm is not commercial
:2. I still use it by preference
:
:Of course, since I wrote part of it, it's natural that it fits exactly what I
:want and need, and comes in at less than 32K Current version, with Sliding
:Windows Kermit removed).
:
:If, on the other hand, you are talking about Amigaterm (AmigaTerm?), then I
:still say it's better than Maxicomm.

	I actually believe he's talking about the Commercial program called
A-Term, released by a since defunct company called MegaSoft. It's a tossup
as to which was released first, A-Term or MaxiComm. I know in the Portland
area, A-Term hit the stores about two weeks before MaxiComm. (Novemeber,
1985?) A-Term was released with the beta code, and for various reasons,
was never finished. (One reason was that the programmer never got paid.)
It did have a very good X-Modem, but it would be tough to decide whether
MaxiComm or A-Term would 'win' the honors of being the worst commecial
terminal program for the Amiga. :-}

:-larry
:
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:    -D.Wolfskill
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