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From: c60c-3aw@web-3d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Best IIGS modem h/w & s/w - Reply
Summary: It ain't perfect, but it ain't bad neither
Keywords: modem
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Date: 3 Oct 88 18:32:04 GMT
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In article <1799@puff.cs.wisc.edu> koehn@gumby.cs.wisc.edu (Brad Koehn) writes:
>In article <4965@saturn.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>>ProTERM is just the best terminal program I've ever seen...Ascii Express,
>>which can still be considered decent, PALES IN comparison to ProTERM...
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>
>So what? 
>
>I am a former (as of 7-88) Apple ][ series user. I was devout to the machine,
>until I got my Mac (after nearly 7 years of computing on the ][). Believe me,
>ProTerm is nothing to "rave" about. That program just, well, isn't. In terms
>of power, it doesn't come close to AE Pro, really. Look at a term Program for
>the Amiga (or Mac), which allows you to download, upload, chat, and run
>another totally different application at the same time! Now, granted, the
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If you take a look at comp.binaries.mac, there's a program called "MCS" (Multi
Channel Something-or-other) which uses some error-correcting protocol to allow
simultaneous uploads, downloads, and chats.  It's fairly small, and shareware
too.

This isn't something that is excessively hard to do, it just hasn't been done
on a //gs yet.  The reason it isn't generally supported is that it is something
of a gimmick 90% of the time.  Since it usually will work only between two
identical computers running the same program, and there isn't really a
standardized protocol for this (I may be wrong on this point), it isn't
considered a necessity by most users.

While it would be really neat to have, it just isn't vital.

If you look at ProTERM, it's strength isn't in supporting rarely-used features
(although it does), but rather in being a COMPLETE term program.  All things
considered, there are very few things it CAN'T do.

Flames > /dev/null.

>Brad Koehn

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