dorner@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU (08/15/86)
Wayne H. Pollock, {ihnp4,cbatt}!cbnap!whp writes >The bottom line is, if you need a good reliable terminal emulator, use >MacTerminal or VersaTerm or some other professional product. If you try >Red Ryder, you might just be throwing your money away. You certainly won't >get professional support. (Another point: I don't believe the author has >updated the documentation since version 8.0, and I recall that many >enhancments/features were added since then.) I don't know about VersaTerm, but I bought MacTerminal back in the dark ages, when it was all there was. I certainly don't have to worry about my document- ation being obsoleted by program enhancements. The program never did anything very well, and still does not! MacTerminal has none of the features of RR or MicroPhone--no procedures, macros, kermit. It's slow. It also likes to bomb if you change port settings in the middle of a session (like turn flow control off). RR is pretty good and pretty cheap. And with as many customers as there are for RR, I think it's inevitable that SOMEBODY was going to have a bad experience with it. Of course, I'm sure that's easy for me to say, since I'm not the bad experience-ee, so to speak. Steve Dorner dorner@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
mrh@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Hannah) (08/19/86)
In article <96900033@uiucuxc>, dorner@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU writes: > > Wayne H. Pollock, {ihnp4,cbatt}!cbnap!whp writes > > >The bottom line is, if you need a good reliable terminal emulator, use > >MacTerminal or VersaTerm or some other professional product. If you try > >Red Ryder, you might just be throwing your money away. You certainly won't > >get professional support. (Another point: I don't believe the author has > >updated the documentation since version 8.0, and I recall that many > >enhancments/features were added since then.) > > I don't know about VersaTerm, but I bought MacTerminal back in the dark ages, I do know about VersaTerm and it is an excellent product. It is updated frequently with new features, the lastest being a automatic macro recording. It supports VT100, Textronics 1014 both quite well. There are lots of niceties with attention to detail and the support is very good. I haven't used Red Ryder so I can't comment on that but from what I have seen on the net, there are lots of updates to it, but some are necessary as bug fixes. The updates to VersaTerm are always enhancements and it is amazingly bug free. It is certainly worth a look if you need a high performance VT100; it is one of the fastest at updating the screen of any of the emulators. David Gelphman BITNET address: DAVEG@SLACVM Bin #88 SLAC ARPANET address: DAVEG@SLACVM.BITNET Stanford, Calif. 94305 UUCP address: ...psuvax1!daveg%slacvm.bitnet 415-854-3300 x2538 usual disclaimer #432 applies: my employer apologies for the fact that I have access to this net.