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From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: IBM 327x emulators
Message-ID: <9@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 18:21:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 17 18:21:14 1986
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In article <261@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> brinsmead@calgary.UUCP (Mark Brinsmead) writes:
>
>    A friend has asked me to locate an emulator for an IBM 327x
>terminal that will run on his (1040) ST. Can anyone provide a pointer
>to such a beast -- I'm sure they exist, but I've never seen one.
>
>                                  Mark Brinsmead

I'm not so sure that such a beast exists.  The 3270 series terminals
are best described as workstations, not terminals in the ordinary sense.
Like CDC `terminals', only more picky.  3270's don't talk serial at all;
they have a ridiculous protocol that involves transferring entire screen
pages, and buffered input areas.

There is no such thing as a 3270 emulator.  What you need is either
a normal terminal emulator run through a front end (like a Series/One
running the Yale package) or one of those elusive Applelink SNA
adapters that purportedly came out for the Macintosh, and something to make
your ST talk Applelink.

-dave
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