On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:51:00 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: > >The mainframe itself never has had a built in display and required a >terminal while a person is entering data or reviewing status or >output.
Of course it has. The mainframe has always come with a console. Some have been display consoles and others have been printer consoles. The console today is the HMC, and it is of limited usefulness as a console for the operating system. This has not always been the case. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
