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From: mrh@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Hannah)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: RedRyder 9.2 Term Emulation Pro
Message-ID: <777@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 22:07:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 18 22:07:30 1986
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References: <162@cbnap.UUCP> <96900033@uiucuxc>
Organization: Stanford University
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Summary: terminal emulation, VersaTerm

In article <96900033@uiucuxc>, dorner@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU writes:
> 
> Wayne H. Pollock, {ihnp4,cbatt}!cbnap!whp writes
> 
> >The bottom line is, if you need a good reliable terminal emulator, use
> >MacTerminal or VersaTerm or some other professional product.  If you try
> >Red Ryder,  you might just be throwing your money away.  You certainly won't
> >get professional support.  (Another point: I don't believe the author has
> >updated the documentation since version 8.0, and I recall that many
> >enhancments/features were added since then.)
> 
> I don't know about VersaTerm, but I bought MacTerminal back in the dark ages,

  I do know about VersaTerm and it is an excellent product. It is updated
frequently with new features, the lastest being a automatic macro recording.
It supports VT100, Textronics 1014 both quite well. There are lots of
niceties with attention to detail and the support is very good. I haven't
used Red Ryder so I can't comment on that but from what I have seen on the
net, there are lots of updates to it, but some are necessary as bug fixes.
The updates to VersaTerm are always enhancements and it is amazingly bug
free. It is certainly worth a look if you need a high performance VT100;
it is one of the fastest at updating the screen of any of the emulators.
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