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- From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
- Subject: Re: Communicating a Mac with an IBM Mainframe System
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 18:29:38 GMT
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- orestes appel (oappel@moose.cs.indiana.edu) wrote:
- : I do need to communicate my Macintosh with an IBM system
- : (two of them, actually) running either MVS or VM. This will be done
- : through a telephone line and a modem (I have a UserID at the target machines).
- :
- : Could someone indicate me a good communication software that would allow
- : me to do this?
-
- Several possibilities:
-
- 1) Any terminal emulator, such as White Knight or ZTerm, plus a
- protocol converter at the mainframe such as
- IBM 7171
- IBM 3708
- IBM Series 1 Yale ASCII
- IBM 3174 AEA
- McData ??? the preceeding are all hardware
-
- SimWare's SIM3278 Software. With this, you might want
- to run SimWare's Mac3270 (payware) on the Mac, but I prefer not
- to; I get better performance at 2400 baud with VT100 protocol
- conversion
-
- 2) The fastest, most comfortable emulation I've found, since I'm
- lucky to have a UserID on a Unix system also, is to log on to
- Unix and use tn3270 to the mainframe.
-
- 3) No protocol conversion. How much CMS or TSO can you do in line mode?
- (but it's great for Kermit!)
-