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From: macpkh@meediv.lanl.gov (Peter K. Haase)
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Subject: Re: PacerTerm
Keywords: Pacer Terminal
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Date: 9 May 91 19:21:06 GMT
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I have been using a Beta version of PacerTerm for about two weeks. I have
been using Pacers PacerShare and Pacerlink which turns a VAX/VMS into a
Appleshare File Server and allows you to establish terminal sessions with
a host. The drawback with Pacerlink was that the host had to be running
Pacerlink on the target machine to allow terminal sessions so PacerTerm 
is far better in that you don't  have to have Pacerlink running on the 
Host system. We purchased a 50 session user license for PacerShare and
PacerLink but it is somewhat limiting in the terminal sessions that you
can have with non Pacerlink Hosts so the new product is a big improvement.

One other note of interest is that I have been doing Appleshare mounts on
our VAX for quite some time but have recently also been doing NFS mounts
using NFS/Share (Intercon) on the MAC and Multinet TCP/IP NFS (TGV) on the
VAX and have seen significant speed increases. Probabaly 2X as fast. There
are some other benefits as well. We will probably switch from using Appletalk
for VMS and AppleShare and go to NFS------Much less hassle, cheaper and faster.

Peter K. Haase 
Mechanical Electrical Engineering Division
505-667-2684