Idiot sightings

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

They have a windows form based version that does exactly what that one does, just slower....

And I believe it is also called Telnet. It will not execute in DOS.

A famous DOS based communication program was PCPlus (if I remember the name). I also wrote a few back then using assembly language.

DOS programs will work in Windows. But are missing many functions that come standard in Windows based programs. Windows based programs will not work in DOS.

Telnet programs were another way of interfacing with obsolete technology time share systems - before browsers were invented.