Re: ProTERM/Mac released

[kindall@falcon.ic.net (Jerry Kindall)]

Glynne Tolar (gtolar@blkbox.com) wrote:
: I'll never understand why ProTERM Mac was made first.  There is a bugger 
: market for a PC version (and quite frankly, I HATE MACS!).

There are tons of PC comm programs.  How is an upstart like InTrec going 
to compete against established, industry-standard products like ProComm, 
Qmodem, Telix, etc.?

On the other hand, there was (before ProTERM Mac) not one single decent 
Mac communications program.  All had bad user interfaces, lacked 
important features, or were too expensive.  It's very telling that the 
most popular Mac communications package was a shareware product, ZTerm.  
(ZTerm lacks a few features but it doesn't cost an arm and a leg either.)

Also, there is the fact that the concentration of former Apple II users 
(and thus the ProTERM name recognition) is higher in the Macintosh 
community than in the PC community.

: I feel better now!

So do I.  But I feel better because there's a decent comm program on the 
Mac finally, not because I've bashed the users of another computer platform.

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