Why was ZTERM 2000 written?
In addition to my frustration with AlphaLAN/FW, I also need a good motive to teach myself C programming on Windows and had avoided it because of the hassle involved with dealing with 64K segments which Windows 3.1 programmers had to. I’d written quite a lot of DOS based PC code, including Alpha Micro’s ETHERNDV.EXE which was used to connect PCs to host AMOS boxes using the dreadful AlphaNET protocol. When Windows 95 launched it finally brought the new 32-bit programmers model called Win32 to the masses. Additionally, Microsoft launched Visual C++ 4.0 which made writing the code a lot easier.
