On 11/16/05, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/15/05, Reginald Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wow, I remember the PC/XT3270. We had one in the office I worked in at > my > > University. If I remember correctly, it was a channel attached terminal > > device an ISA card. We never used it for anything more than a dumb > terminal, > > but I much preferred the old 3278s. > > I don't think that it was channel attached. IIRC, it connected to a > regular 327x controller. One of it's problems was that the third > party IRMA card came out and did the same job of 327x emulation > cheaper.
Yep, we had IRMA cards too. The PC/XT3270 and the PC/XT370 were announced together. Barrons had a > front page article saying that they signalled the end of regular PCs, > how wrong was that? > > > In my first group I ever worked in at Cisco, we the RS/6000 equivalent > of > > the PC/XT370 - don't remember the model, but it ran MVS on a > coprocessor. > > Fairly nifty if you're into mainframes. I never went beyond 370 assemply > and > > a little bit 'o REXX. > > Perhaps you're thinking of the PC/RT, which IIRC ran AIX. Actually, I know what the PC/RT was and wanted one for the longest but never acquired one. I used to be an AIX and DB/2 admin at my University. Its the reason I still use the Korn shell to this day. Just checked with a colleague and what we had was an R/390 and before that a P/390 with OS/2 as the host OS. And apropos all this, and the recent "old operating systems" > discussion on another thread, I ran into this site yesterday. > > http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/ > > If you get carried away, you can run MVS and Linux/390 simultaneously > in virtual machines on VM/390 all running in an emulated 390 on Linux. > > To get an idea about how beefy that old mainframe hardware was check > out this entry in the FAQ > http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/hercfaq.html#3.01 Wow! This is WAY cool. Thanks for the link, when I have some "spare" time, I may try to get something running. --Reggie -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
