21 Apr
2016
21 Apr
'16
2:39 p.m.
On Apr 21, 2016, at 2:35 PM, Josh Dersch <derschjo
at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Ali <cctalk at ibm51xx.net> wrote:
I think you're thinking of the 3270 PC and 3270 AT, which was pretty much
what you described here?
The XT/370 and AT/370 had coprocessor boards that allowed 370 code (and a
heavily modified version of VM/370) to be run on the machine itself. They were
*not* just glorified terminals. ;-)
TTFN - Guy
Actually,
the first one was called XT/370 because it plugged into an
XT!
Then came AT/370. Those were obviously ISA boards. Then came some
variants that were microchannel. The final iterations were PCI based.
Guy,
I am not sure about the other systems but my understanding of the XT/370
and AT/370 was that they were glorified terminals i.e. instead of having a
terminal and a PC on your desk you could have it all in one. Is this wrong?