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From: mat@uts.amdahl.com (Mike Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX on IBM370 machines
Keywords: AIX, IBM, mainframe
Message-ID: <9fSi02Y.59fV01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 23 Sep 89 21:12:40 GMT
References: <13676@well.UUCP> <20027@gryphon.COM> <321@cscnj.csc.COM> <6368@turnkey.gryphon.COM>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <6368@turnkey.gryphon.COM>, jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM (Jack F. Vogel) writes:
> In article <321@cscnj.csc.COM> paul@cscnj.csc.COM (Paul Moody) writes:
> >
> >I dont know how relevant this is to this discussion,
> >but Amdahl's UTS does support 3270's. 
> 
> The reason that UTS could support 3270's is that it runs native. AIX, on
> the other hand runs as a guest under VM. As Oleg pointed out, this means
> that AIX370 is just another user logged onto the system and running an
> operating system. Since VM/CMS does not allow multiple logons of the same
> user id this precludes multiple 3270 access to the system. However, if
> the installation has VM TCP/IP installed, any regular user could simply
> telnet or rlogin to AIX over the network.

Actually, UTS supports multiple 3270s under VM also.  VM permits a 3270 user
to "dial" a virtual machine that offers multiple 3270 connections ( as UTS does).
It is not necessary to logon to VM to use the dial command.
-- 
Mike Taylor                               ...!{hplabs,amdcad,sun}!amdahl!mat

[ This may not reflect my opinion, let alone anyone else's.  ]