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From: ralphw@IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Almost ready to buy ProTERM
Message-ID: <1106@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: 11 Mar 88 22:54:54 GMT
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Keywords: VT-100 Terminal Emulator, communications programs

In article <757@ms3.UUCP> msicv01@ms3.UUCP (Jay G. Heiser) writes:
>The Never Ending Debate on VT-100:
>My dream comm package will include scripts, session review buffer (config-
>urable size), GOOD VT-100 emulation, and kermit.  ProDOS & support for a
>//e with 512k RAM would be nice, too.
...
>Maybe the //e just doesn't have the capability to be a decent terminal
>emulator at 1200 baud.  The Macs & Atari STs have good & cheap VT-100
>packages that even show underlining & bold face.  The IBM PC can show
>screen enhancements through the use of color.  (Why doesn't the horribly
>overpriced GS have some good shareware terminal program like all the
>other computers?).

I believe I have the capability to build an ANSI compatible (VT100+color!).
[a friend showed me his new PC (in '83) with ANSI.Sys driver and some
nifty VMS monitoring utilities] term emulator that would work at 1200 bps.
The //e can do some 80-column color in double-hires mode, I don't have a
color monitor though.  You'd need some fast interrupt-driven routines
[which would bypass the standard Serial Card I/O routines] to grab characters 
coming in from the serial port, and stuff them somewhere for the 
command-interpreter & display routines to pick up.]

Of course, just because I have the capability doesn't mean I have time
to actually build such a thing.  Sorry, and good luck.
-- 
					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.

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