26 Jan
2010
26 Jan
'10
6:38 p.m.
On Tuesday 26 January 2010, William Donzelli 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?
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?).