Using the program’s graphical keyboard editor, you can change keyboard mapping with a simple drag and drop, and PowerTerm supports a wide range of languages. Entering commands is easy you can click on any on-screen menu item to execute the command instead of typing it in a command line. As such, it comes with a quiver full of features that will appeal to users who need to connect to a variety of systems: VT terminals, IBM terminals (both 52), Data General, AIXTERM, WYSE, HP, TANDEM - basically, you name the terminal type, and PowerTerm has it covered. The $150-per-seat, OS X-only PowerTerm comes to the Mac for the first time in this version, ported from a Unix terminal-emulation program of the same name. Two new OS X-native terminal-emulation programs - Ericom’s PowerTerm 1.0 and Celcorp’s CelView 3.0.1 - give your Mac quick access to these powerful systems, and while both work well, neither is a standout. Those systems include everything from Unix and Linux to IBM “Big Iron,” such as the AS/400, and nearly all require that you have some kind of terminal-emulation program to manage and program them. Many of us spend our computing days and nights looking at a shiny Aqua interface, but plenty of people still earn their lunch money staring at screens that look more like DOS than anything remotely graphical.
