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Re: Yterm Purchase Price (Re: Yterm)

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From: Morris
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 23:42
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In a recent article Kevin Maher - Behrend Computer Center writes:
>Yterm can be ordered from the Yale University computer center for $50
>for a single user copy, or $1000 for a University Site license. ($2000 for
>a corporate/business site licencse.)  
> [...]
>           Yterm is supported primarily for IBM mainframes.  This does not
>mean that the emulator does not work for other purposes, it does.  It can
>act reasonably well as a VT100 emulator.  However, I do not think that Yale
>supports file transfer on other machines.  (you will have to ask them about
>that.)

The $2000 price applies to *any* non-educational user, including government
and other non-profit organizations.

There are versions of the host PCTRANS for VMS and UNIX based systems, but
as noted earlier the primary thrust of the YTERM product was support of 
the IBM world (both VM and TSO).

Joe Morris
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