21 Apr
2016
21 Apr
'16
3:29 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Guy
Sotomayor
Sent: 21 April 2016 22:39
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: High performance coprocessor boards of the 80s and 90s - was Re:
SGI ONYX
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
I don't think the CMS was "heavily" modified, modified certainly, but
heavily modified I don't think so...
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:
>> 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?
*not* just glorified terminals. ;-)
TTFN - Guy