Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!beta!a!chn
From: chn@a.UUCP (Charles Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Dreaming of the perfect terminal software
Message-ID: <599@a.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 18:01:13 GMT
References: <6970@j.cc.purdue.edu> <650020@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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Summary: VersaTerm vs VTERM

In article <650020@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU>, spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) writes:
> 
> Oh,... I can't resist... 
> 
> (set gas jets to low broil)
> What do you MEAN low quality of Macintosh communications software?!?!?
 
   [defense of terminal emulators for mac deleted]
 
> at White Pine Software's vt2xx emulators or Abelebeck's (sp?) VersaTerm series.
Here's something I consider very useful that exists on VTERM for the
IBM PC but doesn't exist in VersaTerm:  the toggle between the terminal
and the micro.  You can toggle out of VTERM, work locally on stuff
you may have just downloaded, and then toggle back to the terminal
instantly.  Another advantage of VTERM over VersaTerm is the size of
the scrollback buffer--it's adjustable and big on the PC.  Still, I'm
glad to have the mac for all its other virtues over the PC.
 
> Pretty impressive for what some silly people still call a "toy computer".
> 


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Charlie Neil (chn@lanl.gov)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (505) 665-0978