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From: johnm@uts.amdahl.com (John Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Converting to Workstations - any opinions??
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Date: 12 May 89 23:18:16 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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I have a friend who is putting together a plan to convert
a fairly large s/w development project (50+ people) from a
centralized IBM VM/SP mainframe environment to a distributed
workstation one.

The first step is probably to replace the current 3270-style
dumb terminals with intelligent workstations. These can later
be connected together via a LAN, using the mainframe as a
file server, and providing some sophisticated CASE tools.
The plan will probably include converting the package under
development from Assembler to a high-level language.

Can anyone suggest suitable hardware/software combinations
which will make the first step as painless as possible??
That is, what workstations/packages do a reasonable job at
3270 terminal emulation?

Mail any responses to me at [..decwrl,sun,..]!amdahl!johnm .
I'll be happy to pass them along, and post a summary to the
comp.software-eng.

Thanks,

- John Murray, Amdahl Corp.   (My own opinions, etc.)