jbyrd@BBN-VAX.ARPA (06/12/84)
From: James Byrd <jbyrd@BBN-VAX.ARPA> Someone a few days back (I don't remember who) pointed out that Apple has come out with Apple Access, a terminal program that claims to have vt100 compatibility as one of its options. The vt100 compatibility claim isn't true. For one thing, the manual only claims that it implements "most" of the vt100 features, whatever that means. To see it fail pretty badly, try this: dial up to a computer that has an emacs editor, call emacs on some file, split the screen, and use "escape z" in the lower window a few times. As soon as the text starts to scroll down, the display falls apart. Other examples are easy to find. The package would be a LOT more more useful if Apple had actually implemented the vt100 commands. As it is, I'm not sure what it's emulating. It seems only marginally useful for trying to use a screen editor which thinks it is on a vt100. Jim Byrd
jbyrd@BBN-VAX.ARPA (07/04/84)
From: James Byrd <jbyrd@BBN-VAX.ARPA> I made a little progress on my Apple Access/Microsoft Softcard bug (the one where on booting, I would get garbage all over the second screen, and the boot never finished). (running self-test, and then immediately booting avoids the problem) For one thing, it's not the Microsoft Softcard IIe (80-column, 64K, CP/M) at fault. I replaced it by a borrowed Quadram 80-column 64K card, and the same thing happened. I tried it on a IIc, and the problem did not happen at all. Has anyone else run this program on a IIe? Does it work for other people? Now I'm thinking there may be some sort of timing problem which may go away if I use a faster chip somewhere, but I have no idea where to look. I have no idea what Apple Access does to provoke the problem. I would appreciate any ideas anyone has. Thanks. Jim Byrd
MKrigel.ES@XEROX.ARPA (07/06/84)
That t problem exists on the //e and not the //c may be indicative of the fact that the ROM in the //e and //c are not identical. Sometime this quarter, Apple is supposed to be selling the //c ROMS for installatio into the //e. Marc