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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: EMACS on an IBM?
Message-ID: <14104@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 15:13:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 20 15:13:46 1987
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Keywords: IBM, mainframe, gnuemacs

It would be very hard indeed to run EMACS on an IBM mainframe running
MVS or VM/CMS in the normal environment as all CRT traffic is characterized
as running in the 3270 framework.  The 3270 edits the user input locally
and then transmits it as a whole to the host.  There is no easy way to
go into the "raw mode" style that EMACS operates in.  Besides, IBM has
a very nice screen editor of their own called the Text Editing System
Product (XEDIT).  I've been thinking of stealing portions of this for
EMACS because it has some pretty slick functions that aren't available
in EMACS (yet).

You might get by with EMACS if you either 1, use AMDAHL's UNIX which
uses special non-IBM-style ASCII termial interfaces or 2, encapsulated
things trough special TCP/IP TELNET sessions.

-Ron