2 Sep
2005
2 Sep
'05
6:26 p.m.
Well, there's another project for someone into
such: a generalised 'IBM 360/370
Style I/O Channel' adapter/interface to something modern/common. Although I
will speculate somebody with experience with IBM channel stuff will promptly
suggest it would be a nightmare. (My only experience with them is people from
the past attesting to how complex/arcane said channels were. Always left me a
little curious.)
Judging from the S/3 Mod 15 docs (the big S/3s had a bus and tag channel
for a DASD), bus and tag is not completely weird, and could be implemented
without too much trouble. It is not fast, by today's (or even
yesterday's) standard. The drivers and receivers might be a little bit of
a hassle, unless some were chopped out of an existing IBM.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org