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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacTerminal
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Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 10:53:34 EDT
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> 
> MacT advantages:  Works cleanly and logically... 
> Saves comm. parameters and phone numbers in "documents" so its
> easy to access different remote machines.  
> 

I beg to differ!  I've used both MacTerminal and Versaterm pretty
extensively, and I find VersaTerm's method for dealing with multiple
hosts (a menu with mnemonics for all the phone numbers you dial)
FAR superior to MacT's way of doing things.  Face it, it's a real
pain to close the current document, then wait while the document
for the next machine you want to dial up gets loaded and cranked
up...  I think that this is one case where Apple's predelection
for the desktop idiom got in their way.

(I am in no way associated with Apple or Lonnie Abelbeck, except
that I chose Lonnie's product over Apple's...)


Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

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