farber%udel-eecis1.udeecis@udel-ee.arpa (11/24/83)
From: Dave Farber <farber%udel-eecis1.udeecis@udel-ee.arpa> Just got hold of a demo copy. It is a "electronic mail and intelligent terminal system" made by Microcom Inc and marketed by IBM. Cost is $100 and it MUST run under 2.1 if it lives on a Winnie. Looks very nice; features automatic clock controlled deferred call and deliver mail service. It uses the MNP (Microcom Networking protocol (any one have a real definition of that). Certainly interesting. More as I use it. Dave
ozsu@cavell.UUCP (T. Ozsu) (01/08/85)
I have been given the Personal Communications Manager on loan to be used with my PC. This is a communications program written for IBM by MICROCOM, Inc. It is supposed to emulate an "intelligent terminal". Unfortunately, there is no indication on what type of a terminal it is supposed to emulate. I am trying to link to a VAX using UNIX 4.2 and have tried to get it to emulate a VT52, VT100, and a Visual 200, without any success. Of course, the local IBM product center was of no help either (I am not sure the person I talked to even knew what a terminal emulator is!) They did not even know the phone number or address of MICROCOM. If there is anybody out there using this product, could you please let me know what type of terminal this thing is emulating. If someone has a TERMCAP entry for it, that would also help. --Tamer Ozsu University of Alberta ihnp!alberta!ozsu