29 Mar
2012
29 Mar
'12
1:18 a.m.
A question for those of you who play with Hercules... Are twinax cards
supported under Linux such that a 5250 terminal can be connected and work?
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29 Mar
29 Mar
1:30 a.m.
On 03/29/2012 01:18 AM, David Griffith wrote:
A question for those of you who play with Hercules...
Are twinax cards
supported under Linux such that a 5250 terminal can be connected and work?
Not to my knowledge. I think the best you'll be able to do (which
isn't really all that bad) is to pick up a 3174 with Ethernet or TR
capability, network that to the Linux box, and hang terminals off of
that. I know some people have done that with great success, and if I
can ever find an appropriate flavor of 3174, I plan to do that myself.
I have a beautiful 3290 here, with keyboard and key, and am looking
for any other 3270-compatible terminals; I'd love any number of 3277,
3278, or 3279 terminals if anyone can spare some.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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2:32 a.m.
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Subject: twinax cards, linux, and hercules
A question for those of you who play with Hercules... Are
twinax cards
supported under Linux such that a 5250 terminal can be
connected and work?
NO. Hercules doesn't support any real IBM hardware. You can connect a real
3270 terminal but only by using the TN3270 support in the later 3174s. I
have such a setup. I don't know about remote controllers for 5250 , but if
you had an AS/400 or System/I box with a 5250 and TN3270 then that could
connect to Hercules.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
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A: Top-posting.
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2:45 a.m.
Uggghhhh.... Linux? I doubt it, but never tried. It was hard enough
getting decent WinNT drivers for twinax cards....
The Hercules card itself is a very rudimentary driver and is essentially
the basis for much of the video card drivers adopted standards so you
shouldn't have any issue with that, but the Twinax will most likely give
you some problems above WinNT
David Griffith wrote:
A question for those of you who play with Hercules... Are twinax
cards supported under Linux such that a 5250 terminal can be connected
and work?
3:01 a.m.
He's talking about the IBM mainframe emulator called Hercules, not
the Hercules Graphics Card.
That said, I'm pretty sure Linux supports the Hercules Graphics Card,
or at least I think it did in pre-1.0 kernels way back when.
-Dave
On 03/29/2012 02:45 AM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Uggghhhh.... Linux? I doubt it, but never tried. It
was hard enough
getting decent WinNT drivers for twinax cards....
The Hercules card itself is a very rudimentary driver and is essentially
the basis for much of the video card drivers adopted standards so you
shouldn't have any issue with that, but the Twinax will most likely give
you some problems above WinNT
David Griffith wrote:
>
> A question for those of you who play with Hercules... Are twinax cards
> supported under Linux such that a 5250 terminal can be connected and
> work?
>
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New Kensington, PA
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