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From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comm programs
Message-ID: <14803@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 16:20:01 GMT
References: <2053@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <1990Oct1.062551.6144@agora.uucp>
Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Oct1.062551.6144@agora.uucp> billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) writes:
>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

When I think "ATerm" I think of Michael Mournier's thing that was
available (PD?) as source quite soon after the release of the A1000
in Sept 85.  It was the basis for many later term programs (Access!,
Comm, Wecker's VT100, etc.)

>:
>:--
>:It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs.
>:    -D.Wolfskill
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>
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