HyperACCESS (sometimes known as HyperTerminal) is a family of terminal emulation software by

Hilgraeve Hilgraeve is a software firm based in Monroe, Michigan, and is best known for its HyperTerminal Private Edition and HyperACCESS programs. In earlier years, HyperTerminal had been licensed for use by Microsoft in versions of Windows ranging from W ...

. A version of HyperACCESS called HyperTerminal is included in some versions of Windows.

History

It was the first software product from Hilgraeve, and it was initially designed to let 8-bit

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computers communicate over a modem. In 1985, this same product was ported to

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s and compatible systems, as well as Heath/Zenith's Z-100 non-PC-compatible

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computer. Over the years, the same version of this technology would be ported to other operating systems, including

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and

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. It has earned a total of five Editor's Choice awards from ''

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''. In 1995, Hilgraeve licensed a low-end version of HyperACCESS, known as HyperTerminal, to

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

for use in their set of communications utilities. It was bundled with

through

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, but is no longer bundled with

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, or later Windows. The commercial products HyperTerminal Private Edition and HyperACCESS both support all versions of Windows up to and including

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Protocols

* Display:

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VT100 The VT100 is a video terminal, introduced in August 1978 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It was one of the first terminals to support ANSI escape codes for cursor control and other tasks, and added a number of extended codes for special f ...

VT52 The VT50 was a CRT-based computer terminal introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in July 1974. It provided a display with 12 rows and 80 columns of upper-case text, and used an expanded set of control characters and forward-only scro ...

* File transfer:

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, Kermit, XMODEM, YMODEM/YMODEM-G, and

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External links

Hilgraeve company website

{{Terminal emulator Communication software Terminal emulators DOS software OS/2 software Windows software Discontinued Windows components

History

Protocols

See also

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