Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!joe From: joe@cbmvax.commodore.com (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Re: NAPLPS Terminal Emulation on Amiga Message-ID: <22098@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 3 Jun 91 03:06:52 GMT References: Reply-To: joe@cbmvax.commodore.com (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 24 In article matt@vrtwo.UUCP (Matt Buford) writes: >Here in Hawaii, the state has set up an "information service" with 1000 lines >run on a mainframe... Well, my problem is, some of the service works with >VT-100, but most of it requires NAPLPS. Anyone have or know of a term program >for the Amiga that will emulate NAPLPS? I have never heard of it except for on >their system... But they say it's an international standard... But can anyone >tell me where I can get a PD emulator, or the address of somewhere to order a >commercial emulator would be fine also... Thanks! I'd like to see a NAPLPS implementation on the Amiga, but I don't know of one. NAPLPS is a North American standard with many fuzzy edges. The now-defunct Viewtron communications service worked with VT-100 and NAPLPS (Viewtron offered a C64 implementation). A member of their staff was on the standards committee; he estimated a minimum 1-year development period to implement NAPLPS on the Amiga. It is basically a resolution-independent vector graphics communications protocol. -- ========================================================================== Joe O'Hara || Disclaimer: I didn't say that! Commodore Electronics Ltd || Product Assurance || "I never lie when I have sand in my shoes." Systems Evaluation Group || - Geordi LeForge, Star Trek TNG ==========================================================================