26 Jan
2010
26 Jan
'10
7:55 p.m.
On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jan 26, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Howsabout a 3174 with HG23 ports on it (I think that's the right
designation), and 3270-type terminals (or VT-100s on the HG23
ports) connected to that?
Or, is that cheating?
Could you put a straight VT-100 (i.e., not a VT-131) on one of
those ports and have the 3174 do all the screen management to
simulate a block-mode terminal?
That's my understanding of it, yes. I still need to get my 3174-11L set
up on a machine to test this out...
Pat
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That's just a subset of DEC vs IBM, an old but
vigorous one. You
couldn't stick a VT100 on a mainframe (terminal emulator packages
aside) and you couldn't stick a 3270 on a VAX,
I think you could (either way), with the appropriate 3rd party
stuff. DEC was not completely unaware of block mode terminals
(VT62? And I think a VT-100oid?).