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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atari ST terminal emulation (was Re: when using termcap, get it right!)
Message-ID: <13222@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 01:54:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: teknowle.13222
Posted: Mon Jun  1 01:54:37 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jun-87 04:33:40 EDT
References: <1149@carthage.swatsun.UUCP> <8601@tekecs.TEK.COM> <6828@mimsy.UUCP> <16906@amdcad.AMD.COM> <901@lll-lcc.aRpA>
Reply-To: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (Michael Khaw)
Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
Lines: 17
Keywords: terminals, cheap
Summary: termcap discussion in comp.sources.d led to IBM-PCs, then to Atari STs
Xref: mnetor comp.sources.d:734 comp.sys.atari.st:3801

In article <901@lll-lcc.aRpA> langdon@lll-lcc.aRpA (Bruce Langdon) writes:
...
>Atari 540 ST's with a monochrome monitor are as cheap and provide a lot
>better display quality, or else more lines/characters per line.
...
>If you don't need perfect VT-xxx and IBM compatibility, buy cheap.

1) What terminal emulation packages run on STs? (I don't follow the
   ST newsgroups since I don't have any STs).
2) What if I need pretty faithful vt100 emulation?  Doesn't kermit,
   for example, (I assume there is a kermit for STs) do a reasonable job?

Mike Khaw
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