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From: jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ZTERM 0.7 is out!
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Date: 18 Jan 89 00:56:54 GMT
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In article <46100258@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Those of you interested in ZMODEM might also want to check out the Software
>Ventures booth at the MacWorld Expo this week.  They will be showing a version
>of MicroPhone II (v3.0) which includes not only ZMODEM, but a number of other
>nice new features as well.

The file transfer capabilities of MicroPhone II already are wonderful, but
I'm much less exited about the terminal emulation itself. The most disturbing
feature is the blinking cursor that always hides for a moment after it has
moved. It takes a lot more time to find it than a cursor that is either always
visible (when idle) or always starts out by being visible.

MicroPhone II is also a lot slower than VersaTerm Pro and it supports only
a 24 line VT100 emulator. I'm used to 36 lines with Versaterm or 40 lines
with my own program...

On the good side: the scrollback buffer is not "jumpy". The screen does not
jump to the end when new text arrives. This is a great help when reading
digests or other long files without more/less. The only programs that I know
of that can do this are MicroPhone and my program.

Why is Microphone so slow? Why does it take so much disk & RAM space?
Why does it have over 60 code resources with an median size of about
1-2KB. Those subroutine calls between segments must cost something...

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