Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!n8emr!lwv From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: VT100 Message-ID: <491@n8emr.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 88 18:03:54 GMT References: <8803121505.ab17271@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) Organization: Ham BBS, Columbus,Oh. 614-457-4227 (300/1200,8N1) Lines: 30 Sewall, the point in this is in accessing such minor services such as Compuserve, Bix, Delphi, Genie, AppleLink, colleges, universities, local BBS, etc. Most folks add on terminal emulations last if they are suppling file transfer, or they add on file transfer AFTER the terminal emulation. If they do the first, then xmodem is the ONLY standard file transfer for bbs file transfer; kermit is great, but isnt available on most BBS and only recently on CIS - and it is not really speedy there. If they do the second (adding file transfer afterwards) then they find that Xmodem is quite easy to add, whereas Kermit is not quite so easy, IF you are going to offer the wide range of support areas as Ted has provided. Primarily, Apple 2 owners are treated poorly in development software, comm software, and productivity software areas at this time. The Apple 2 is considered a great game machine, a useable educational machine, and a handicapped machine otherwise APPARENTLY by the various software developers. _I_ know differently, but that MUST be the reason that we see no development software for the Apple 2 from Microsoft, Borland, Lightspeed, etc. The only company who provided reasonable development software is Byteworks and TML - and these companies primarily produce software for the GS. Pecan makes claims of having UCSD software for the 2 series, but I have never heard anyone claim to be using this software wsuccessfully. -- Larry W. Virden 75046,606 (CIS) 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@PSUVAX1 (BITNET) We haven't inherited the world from our parents, but borrowed it from our children.