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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
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Subject: Re: uucp on IBM mainframe ?!
Message-ID: <458@argus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Aug-86 09:06:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 21 09:06:17 1986
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In article <191@ima.UUCP>, johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) writes:
> In article <133@uwmacc.UUCP> pwu@uwmacc.UUCP (Peter Wu) writes:
> >Does anyone know if there's software available for IBM mainframe
> >(running MVS 370 XA) to do uucp (i.e. hook up to usenet) with
> >an unix host?
> 
> Sort of.  If you're running VM, then under VM you can run IX/370 which
> is the official IBM version of TSSIX, which was AT&T's Unix port running
> on top of a stripped down version of TSS/370, now all under VM.  IX/370 is
> a real Unix port, and as such comes along with uucp.  There are a few hitches,
> though.  The first is that IX/370 is pretty expensive.  It's an IBM mainframe
> product and priced to match.  The next is that you need a Series/1 mini to
> run your async lines, since IBM does not generally support transparent ascii
> connections to their mainframe systems.
> John R. Levine, Javelin Software Corp., Cambridge MA +1 617 494 1400
> { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.EDU

Pardon?  Check out a machine called the 7171, it enables standard ASCII
terminals to talk straight to IBM systems.  If you don't have that you
can use an async port on the IBM to talk ASCII, you just have to write
the driver for it, but is can be done.  Its not easy, but it can be done.

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