BRACKENRIDGE@USC-ISIB@sri-unix.UUCP (09/02/83)
From: Billy <BRACKENRIDGE@USC-ISIB> The embedded terminal emulator in KERMIT is about as good as you are going to get for free. As source code is available (IBM Macro) you can modify it to fit your needs. I suppose you would rather have a terminal emulator written in C. I know Mark of the Unicorn wrote a respectable VT100 emulator in C with very extensive menu selection. It is a great improvement over a real VT100. I don't know of any C based terminal emulators in the public domain. I am surprised that there aren't some down loadable programs that work closely with Unix to provide for example a window package or screen oriented editor. At ISI we require the capability of 9600 baud operation, ASCII file transfer, and TAC flow control support. We are also used to scroll back memory and local screen editing. There aren't any public domain programs which meet these specs. At ISI we are using VDTE a commercial product written by Dick Gillmann our INFO-IBMPC moderator. I believe Bill Westerfield at SRI also has a commercial product. Both Bill and Dick donated earlier versions of their products to INFO-IBMPC. As we try to keep INFO-IBMPC commercial free there hasn't been much mention of these products. Communications software seems to be the most hotly contested part of the IBM market. The range in quality is wide and quality is not necessarily a function of price.