SpecInfo #02 23 сентября 1997

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Soft - ZX TERMINAL 97 your way to the Internet on the Spectrum.

                           SOFT


           ZX TERMINAL 97-YOUR WAY TO THE INTERNET

 This is not a gimmick, but a very real possibility of entering 
into World Wide Web, but more on that below. To begin you want 
to introduce a new program. Our company with the participation 
of oktivnom BAGroup (Beketov Alexei Afonin and Ilia) have 
developed a new terminal program for computing system SKORPION, 
allowing work in text mode, with stations in BBS, and with 
Unix-shell servers and on the Internet. What you need: a 
computer SKORPION any ProfPZU, controller and any SMUC Haye's 
internal modem podklyuchennyy to SKORPION-y through the 
controller SMUC. 

    Here are the main technical characteristics of terminal

                          Program:

 * The display mode is 64 or 42 characters per line (for a fee 
GMX-80)  * TTY-terminal

 * Work in its own operating sisteme (together with MS_DOS)
 * Support for file transfer protocols X-Modem and Z-Modem!
 * Maximum speed of transmission and reception card Turbo + 
-2600 

   characters per second
 * Availability of service features (redial)
 * Use hardware flow uprovleniya (RTS / CTS)

 Immediately answer your first question: what is its own 
operating system? Currently, the Speccy raspostraneny system 2: 
TR-DOS and IS_DOS. The first is not suitable for this problem 
for many reasons (the limit on the maximum amount of faila-64K, 
a small number of files on the disk, otsutstvie Assortment and 
subdirectories, the inability to add files and etc). With 
IS_DOS Th complicated system, in principle, not bad, but the 
restriction on amount of disk space-16MB, and a sort of closed 
system makes it rather difficult to write programs for it, 
though if it will be very necessary, something will come 
ZX-Terminal and under IS_DOS. Our OC is built on the principles 
used in MS-DOS, and add-on program (November-December 1997) 
will support MS-DOS disks and TR DOS directly. 


      The main objective of the new program and the new system 
is primarily to ensure a comfortable working hardware-software 
complex for the opportunity to work on the BBS, networking 
FidoNet and the Internet (connecting to the server, Unix-Shell, 
the service have now almost all ISPs), and just download

program or any interesting information. In the software part
complex will include all neobhodimye for easy use in FidoNet 
mailers fidoshny-mailer, tosser, etc. are currently being 
aktivnyi work to create these programs. Well, further, who 
knows maybe Internet Explorer for Scorpion-a appear.

 The program requires a Scorpion-y connect ProfPZU
Controller SMUC, an internal modem for IBM PC, using the ISA
slot, or rather its 8-bit part (any from 1200 up to 33600). May
be used by any Intelligent modem with hardware flow control 
(XON / XOFF control is not implemented). In Currently, work is 
required HDD, connected via SMUC.



                Wait for your offers and wishes!

                         WRITE TO:

199048 ST PETERSBURG, PO Box 083 Zonov Sergey or
Tel: (812) -298-0653, 251-1262 (service center, with 10 to 19). 
E-mail: baws@aura.ru.


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