A-Shell contains a native terminal emulation application, TELNET, which supports communication with remote AMOS and A-Shell/Unix installations, via an AM65/AM75 emulation. In addition, a separate application ATE, provides the same stand-alone terminal emulation functionality for both TCP/IP (telnet) connections and serial connections.

If either of these terminal emulation packages are used into an AMOS or an A-Shell/Unix installation, then future versions of A-Shell and these terminal emulators will allow certain restricted automation functionality when running against A-Shell/Unix or AMOS. In particular it is the intention that AlphaBASIC applications running under both A-Shell/Unix and AMOS be able to call Visual Basic or other COM-based XCALL subroutines running on the client PC when these terminal emulation methods are used.

At the time of writing the functionality described in this document applies only to A-Shell for Windows Version 4.7 and later.