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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comm programs
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Date: 2 Oct 90 12:43:28 GMT
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In <14803@cbmvax.commodore.com>, bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) writes:
>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.)
>>:
>>: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).
>>:
>>
>>	I actually believe he's talking about the Commercial program called
>>A-Term, released by a since defunct company called MegaSoft.
>
>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.)

That's the one I referred to in my posting. Aterm was originally written by
Michael Mounier, and extensively modified by Steve Allen, Jeff Lydiatt, and
myself. Jeff put in the clock, phone book, and Sliding Windows Kermit, and
modularized the code. I added the CHAT mode, and made extensive small
modifications to function key operation and file finding, and finally (on my
own version), removed the Slidng Windows Kermit and added two more speeds to
the baud rate selection (19.2KB and MIDI).

Now that I see the mention of Megasoft (a company best forgotten, from my
knowledge of them in the C64 days), I do remember A-Term. Over the years, there
has been some confusion as to which program is which. Here are the ones I know
of that have been mistaken for each other...

  Aterm - the one I referred to (PD, by Michael Mounier)

  Amigaterm - Not the CBM one, but Aterm under a different name, as it
              appeared on Fred Fish #1. Reason for name change unknown,
              but it was probably submitted to Fred that way.

  Amigaterm - The CBM terminal program bundled with their modem.

  A-Term - the Megasoft product mentioned above.

Many other terminal programs have been based on Aterm, including, but not
limited to:

  AmigaDisplay - Don Woods

  TermPlus - Bob Rakosky

	VT100 - Dave Wecker

Just a little rambling for the Amiga history buffs.

-larry

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