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AlphaCom

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Developer(s)
  
OmniCom Technologies

Development status
  
Active

Type
  
Terminal emulator

Stable release
  
9.0 / 2015 (2015)

Platform
  
Windows

Initial release
  
1999; 18 years ago (1999)

AlphaCom is a commercial SSH, Telnet and RS-232/modem client and terminal emulator by OmniCom Technologies. It is a Windows product but has been known to also run on Linux via emulation.

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History

AlphaCom is a GUI-based RS-232/modem, Telnet and SSH client and terminal emulator. The earliest known version was released in 1999. It was previously part of a line of networking software which included a remote desktop client called winShadow, a Telnet server called AlphaServ, and a remote printing product called AlphaLPD. The company now offers only AlphaCom and AlphaLPD. All of the above are commercialware.

Features

  • Wyse 50/50+, Wyse 60, SCO ANSI, Linux, IBM3151, ANSI, VT220, VT102, VT100, VT52 emulations
  • International keyboard and character set
  • Built-in utilities includes file transfer, host look-up, ping, traceroute, FTP, time client and network scanner

    • OmniCom Technologies has further information on their web site.

    Compatibility

    AlphaCom runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. It also runs on the Windows Server series of operating systems. An experimental version for macOS was made available in January 2016.

    Popularity

    AlphaCom is a popular choice among system and network administrators. A free trial of AlphaCom is available. The trial version is valid for 30 days.

    References

    AlphaCom Wikipedia
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