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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: EMACS on an IBM? (Yale's YTERM product)
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 12:27:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 12:27:20 1987
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The product that Yale is most known for is called (in the IBM world)
the "Yale IUP."  This was the forerunner of the CRT protocol converter.
It uses a Series/1 to convert ASCII cursor-addressable terminals into
an emulation of a 3270.  This was later superseded by IBM by the 7171
device that does the same thing and by a whole slew of second parties.
The level of service provided is similar to what you get when you run
TN3270 to a IBM host on TCP.

The only product that I know of that gives the kind of terminal support
you'd need for EMACS is AMDAHL's special EP for their 4705 which provides
the ASCII character oriented I/O needed for their UNIX product.

-Ron