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From: ronc@cerebus.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.sys.sequent,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ether terminal software (PC)
Message-ID: <930@cerebus.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 88 16:16:40 GMT
References: <137@pbseps.UUCP> <481@softway.oz>
Reply-To: ronc@cerebus.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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In article <481@softway.oz> greg@softway.oz (Greg Rose) writes:
>In article <137@pbseps.UUCP> rdp@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) writes:
>>
>>We are looking for an MS-DOS terminal program to allow PCs to
>>access a TCP/IP host over ethernet.
>Sequent had a broduct called BSS/PC-shells. Unfortunately,
>the B means Balance. They use this extensively in house though, so
>it may also be available on the Symmetry. You need GEM for the PC, and
>preferably a mouse, but then you get multiple windows with ANSI (near
>enough for me).

We have PC-Shells.  It's a toy.  First off, it doesn't support Ethernet,
it does packet switching over a com port.  This tends to make it pretty
slow.  Secondly, it's not really a supported product.  If someone would
come out with a product with the functionality of PC-Shells, but supported
VT220 emulation and worked over Ethernet under Microsoft Windows or X-Windows,
they'd really have something.  (Anyone want to start a company?  :-))

You would be better off trying one of the multitude of TCP/IP solutions
out there for the PC.  I have a list of a dozen or so that will do the
job.  Off the top of my head:  PC-NFS from Sun, PC/TCP from FTP Software,
and Fusion from Network Research.  We have several copies of PC-NFS running
here, and the only complaint I have is the lack of function keys in the
ANSI emulation.  (They support four, and we need a lot more than that.
Twenty would be nice.)  FTP Software is working on a VT220 emulation for
their PC/TCP.  We are waiting with bated breath.  If Sun doesn't expand
the capabilities of their terminal emulation, we may drop PC-NFS in favor
of the FTP Software product.


				Ron
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