On 18/04/2013 03:53, David Riley wrote:
On Apr 17, 2013, at 8:45 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, geneb wrote:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
> Those are for lack of a better term for them, terminals.
I still think that "TERMINAL" is a better name than "thin client"
I'm kinda bummed that I've got an IRMA 3270 card and nothing to to
connect
it to.
Can you get it to do TN3270?
No, that's a REAL 3270 card for hooking up
over coax (what was it,
SDLC? Something in the SNA family). Later ones had twisted pair
as well, but I don't know driving what.
Oddly 3270's can be SNA or non-SNA, its the controller configuration
that decides, but I guess what runs over the CO-AX isn't really SNA.
VM/370 has never really had SNA support but will support many 3270
terminals. Yes IBM did add SNA support in VM/SP5 but only via
cludginging of yet another clone of MVS (in the guise of GCS) into VM.
The later 3174 controller also act as Telnet terminal servers so you can
use a 3170 connection as an ANSI terminal onto a DEC host...
They made NuBus and Mac SE card versions as well,
probably quite a
few other types.
I guess you COULD get it to do tn3270, given an appropriate proxy,
Just plug it
into a 3174 with the appropriate firmware. It will do
normal TELNET as well...
but that seems to me like hooking a VT100 to a machine
to bridge
to IP to connect to another machine running ser2net. You could do
it, it might be kind of cool, but you could remove the middleman.
If you had a real Mainframe with a local 3174 that was the sort of thing
folks did all the time.
- Dave
Dave