Currently, the Z will only do 2400 bps on AOL, so any "slowdown" is probably the connection speed rather than processor. Hopefully AOL will open the Z up to higher speeds (there are check boxes for higher speeds in the Zoomer AOL setup).
CIS has a version in their forum you can download and install on the Zoomer. I can't comment on its operation as I haven't tried it. There are some shareware terminal programs that give you access to other services, but I haven't tried those either.
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