Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DEC/IBM networking info request
Keywords: IBM,network
Message-ID: <408@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 21:42:25 GMT
References: <556@modular.UUCP> <253@wsccs.UUCP>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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In article <253@wsccs.UUCP>, terry@wsccs.UUCP (terry) writes:
> In article <556@modular.UUCP>, earley@modular.UUCP (Joe Earley) writes:
> > A friend of mine is trying to get a couple of large IBMs talking to a few
> > large and small DEC machines (uVAXes and 8550s) over an Ethernet.
>   Tee Hee.

Guffaw Guffaw Guffaw... Actually there was a saleman around here the
other day saying he was aware of a TCP/IP port to the IBM world which
was very close... His lips were moving so I assume he was lying.
Experience with computer salesmen shows this to be true 99% of the
time :-).

> > 2) VT100/200 emulation from any terminal on the IBM side,
> 	Tee Hee Hee Hee.  Haw Haw.  Anybody out there *ever* hear of a
> batch-mode emulator for IBM mainframes that can send ASCII, let alone the
> regular control codes required/sent by a VT100?  How do you expect to do
> Sixels on a 3101, running in blockmode thru an 8101 controller?  VT100 might
> be possible, but come back in 5(*10^3?) years when the IBM can do raw I/O.
> Async?  Hee Hee Hee Hee.  They can barely do sync.

Of course the mainframes won't do it but on a smaller scale there is
at least one 3274 cluster controller that offers 3278/9 terminal to
async host protocol conversion (or vice versa VT100 terminals
to the IBM, it ain't pretty but it works)

-- 
Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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