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- From: work@tasha.guug.de (Felix Blank)
- Subject: Re: Terminal Emulator for Apple //e
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.150206.29915@tasha.guug.de>
- References: <1992Sep3.212736.20856@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 15:02:06 GMT
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- ostroff@oswego.Oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff) writes:
-
- >We have an 128K Apple //e (and also a 256K memory card if that matters)
- >with duo-disk and monochome monitor. Since it is not seeing any productive
- >use I was hoping to use it as a terminal emulator.
-
- >Now I don't use Apple II's anymore, but I used to, and even bought one of
- >the very first. Anyway, I have an old emulator called "Pro Term" and
- >when I tried using it with the //e at 9600 baud it was pretty worthless.
- >The first line or two of output was fine, then as it continued down the
- >screen more and more characters were missing until it degenerated into
- >complete gibberish. Evidently the //e and Super Serial Card just can't
- >handle 9600 baud.
-
- >Next I tried it at 2400 baud. The results here were a little better, but
- >there were still characters dropped. Also, the emulator does not support
- >vt100 and the vt52 emulation didn't work quite right with my unix termcap.
-
- Meanwhile there is a version 3.0 of ProTerm, which has an excellent
- vt100 support and can handle speeds up to 38400 bps on Aplles equipped
- with speedup cards/chips.
- But it's a commercial product and not a cheap one!
-
- Felix
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