Re: ProTERM 3.1 DEMO on cco.caltech.edu

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <1993May8.011838.19259@nuchat.sccsi.com> glynnet@zero.cypher.com (Glynne Tolar) writes:
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>I don't think $30 is too steep.  COnsidering you get the whole package again.
>I guess they should have offered a disk only upgrade.  The new manual is even
>bigger, so I hear.

Who cares about the size of the manual? This pricing is simply ridiculous. I
don't need a whole new package and I don't appreciate people trying to force 
it upon me.
>
>What Proterm does with memory is already amazing.  Getting the editor to do  
>this would be a big challenge.  So don't hold your breath!  Now if it only did
>this on the GS that would be somewhat easy BUT on a //e with all that bank
>switching!  Say, ask Greg if you can write it?

Proterm is indeed very nice. I have no idea what a IIe really is. I could not
care less about bank switching. That is his problem. I have a GS, and I don't
expect to use a product simply because it can do wonders on an AppleII.
 
Quite frankly, PT 3.0 is fine for me. If I had to get another program (which I
don't) then perhaps one would wait for 7 Hills' product or have a look at 
Ansiterm. I'm quite fed up with people supporting the IIe and giving marginal
support to the GS. The IIe is simply not my cup of tea in the sense of having
awful graphics and no sound. It makes a cheap data acquisition console or a
reasonable text terminal. Quite frankly, I wish it would simply go away. 
There are many reasons for the GS's existance. It's most unfortunate that it
is part of the AppleII family (except for Proterm).

-- 
Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
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