S211LAUW@HTIKHT5.BITNET.UUCP (06/20/86)
We are looking for a VT240- or VT125-emulator for IBM-PC and/or Olivetti PC. Does anyone know if one exists, and if so, where to get information about it? Thanks in advance, Michiel Koren Tilburg University Tilburg Netherlands ( S170MIKO@htikht5 or something like that)
art@MITRE.ARPA.UUCP (06/25/86)
Polygon Associates, Inc. 1024 Executive Parkway Saint Loius, Missouri 63141 314/576-7709 TELEX 883245 TWX 910/997-0904 market a regis package for the Rainbow. They also sell packages for the IBM PC. I do not know if they sell what you want but it seems a 99% probability that they do. Art McClinton
dolson@USC-ISIF.ARPA.UUCP (06/26/86)
Check the recently issued (July 86) Digital Review pages 105-108; they
ran a comparison against two 240-emulators for the IBM PC. The
compared products are poly-COM/240 by Polygon, Inc, and SmarTerm 240
from Persoft Inc. Review by Jeffrey Steinberg, extracted w/o
permission below:
"...allows the user of an IBM PC,XT or AT...with color graphics
adaptor, EGA or Hercules card...to emulate a VT240. SmarTerm also
extends Tektronix 4010 and 4014 compatibility...Minimum hardware,
...256KB for poly-COM, 512KB for SmarTerm. poly-COM ...640 x 200
pixels in high-res mode, 320 x 200 in medium res...SmarTerm can
display 256 x 800 pixels with the Hercules card, only 200 x 640 with
the IBM card. File transfers...poly-COM, ascii and poly-XFR..
SmarTerm, ascii, xmodem, Kermit and PDIP.
...Setting up the operating environment is where the two products
differ the most: SmarTerm has a far more advanced and user-friendly
interface than poly-COM does.
...[massive cut here...lots of product-use details]...
"While both SmarTerm 240 and poly-COM/240 give the user the same VT240
emulation, SmarTerm 240's expanded file-transfer capabilities,
advanced user interface, programming ability and extensive online help
make this package a far superior terminal emulator."
Of course, in a neat little box beside the article, the magazine
included a product description of poly-COM's latest and greatest,
poly-STAR. I don't think the magazine reviewed the product, and I
question their including the sales claims of a product ("...poly-STAR
*will* support...poly-STAR *will* also allow...") next to their
careful product review. But hey, thats THEIR integrity on the line,
what do I care.
I briefly used a previous incarnation of the Persoft product, called
SmarTerm 100 (one guess, folks...) and found it very nice. I haven't
used either of the two reviewed products and sorry, have very little
interest in anything on a big blue machine these days...
One other note of interest: I have heard of a program termed CALL, a
terminal emulator for the IBM-PC, which currently does VT100 emulation
and which the author is upgrading to do 240 emulation. The author is
Captain Rich Blomseth, *on active duty in the air force* and stationed
at HQ AFOTEC, Kirtland AFB, NM. I believe that his intention is that
this be available to AF activities free-of-charge...possibly to
others.
Disclaimer: I have no financial, personal or other relationship with
the proprietors of these products or this magazine, etc, etc.
Doug (dolson @ Ada20.ARPA, soon-to-be @ Ada20.ISI.EDU)
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