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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Term Progs
Message-ID: <52714@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 May 91 19:43:38 GMT
References: <1991May10.002326.19766@news.iastate.edu> <15622@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <15622@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>
>In article <1991May10.002326.19766@news.iastate.edu> tnab0@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>>Anyone know of a GS/OS term prog that works as good as ProTerm?  AWGS
>>communications pretty much sucks...
>
>	Could you please explain to me why you need a GS specific (what you 
>mean by a "GS/OS term prog") program if ProTERM works well for you, as you
>seem to imply?
>
>	ProTERM takes advantage of the GS's expanded memory.. What else do
>you need? The text screen is faster than the graphics screen anyway... I've only
>seen a few GS programs that scroll "quickly."  Usually scrolling a text window 
>is pretty slow, and that's bad in a term program when info is coming all the
>time..
>
>/unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu       Apple IIGS Forever!        unknown@cats.ucsc.edu\

I want a GS/OS version of ProTERM so I can use High Sierra and ISO 9660 CD-ROMs
with it.  When we release future FSTs (as we've said we will), I'd like to use
them too.  I'd like to use all my GS/OS devices and not just the ProDOS
ones.  I'd like the additional speed of GS/OS's file operations.  I want to
be able to access resource files directly from my file transfer and have
ProTERM automatically turn them into AppleSingle Binary II files on the fly.

I don't necessarily want a desktop version (although that would be cool), but
I want a GS/OS based version.

Unfortunately, Jerry Cline (inSync) seems to think that 98% of all IIgs owners
only use GS/OS on special occasions like birthdays or Christmas, and that they
boot into ProDOS 8 because all they ever run is ProTERM and AppleWorks.  If you
are a ProTERM customer and want a GS/OS version, write to inSync and tell them
why.
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