From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem cole) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 23:34:11 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX on S/370 In-Reply-To: <05ec01d3627a$6960cc80$3c226580$@ronnatalie.com> References: <201711200350.vAK3omwQ013495@freefriends.org> <05be01d36266$4b32e810$e198b830$@ronnatalie.com> <93a49f88-c9b2-d395-ba82-f7a3577bffea@tnetconsulting.net> <05ec01d3627a$6960cc80$3c226580$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: <374F4C47-30B2-4E3E-A493-62C259D25CF0@ccc.com> Right. Generally you used the ps/2 as the terminals for AIX/370 Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. > On Nov 20, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Ron Natalie wrote: > > I'm pretty sure you could, but only on very rudimentary line mode stuff. Note that an IBM mainframe terminal doesn't really have the same paradigm as an ASCII terminal. > > You could go to a VM monitor and type IPL AIX and watch UNIX boot up. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of Grant Taylor via TUHS > Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 10:29 PM > To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org > Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX on S/370 > >> On 11/20/2017 06:15 PM, Ron Natalie wrote: >> AIX deflected all this by actually making the user facing stuff hang >> off the i860/i386 nodes. > > Does that mean that you couldn't access AIX/370 from a traditional mainframe terminal? > > That seems bizarre to me. But it does sound like some other strange things I've heard come out of IBM before. > >> I remember talking extensively to Barry Appleman (VM’s TCP IP guY) >> about writing an X3270 xterm variant. > > What would that have done? Are you meaning an app that would run on > non-AIX/370 OSs that could then act similar to the i860/i386 client / node? (Was it trying to emulate a traditional serial dumb terminal?) > > #confused > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die >