Re: Spectrum vs. Porterm

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article be404@yfn.ysu.edu (Adalbert Goertz) writes...
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>>l.middleton3@genie.com (Lee A. Middleton)
>>IIgs.  I've seen many people say buy Proterm, its the best.  I would agree
>>with this statement on one condition, if you don't own a hard drive.
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>Even if you have a harddrive, I would prefer Proterm.
>It is FASTER than any GSOS based  program incl.Spectrum.

    I would have to agree. I have a fairly swift hardrive setup and even 
running at 15 MHz, yet still prefer ProTERM 3.1 for my telecommunications 
needs. Using the ASCII character generator to display text is much quicker. 
As well, since 95% of my connections are to my shell account using VT-100 
emulation, there'd be no advantage switching to Spectrum (as I recall, it 
uses the text display for VT-100, so no color, bold, blink, underline, etc).
Even in text-mode, it is still far from comparing with ProTERM I find.

    I bought Spectrum 1.0 last year, but was quite disappointed with it,
not just compared to ProTERM but the program on it's own. Perhaps v2.0
and 2.1 are great improvements, but for the moment the only advantage I
see for it are it runs under GS/OS (access to DAs, HFS, etc). Yet if 2.1
still uses text for VT-100, why switch? ProTERM is one of the few 8-bit
programs I still use, in fact I even prefer it's built-in editor over 
AppleWorks! :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca