Porting FreeBSD to Z mainframes idea

[Cy Schubert]

On January 25, 2020 12:22:12 PM PST, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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>In message <202001251941.00PJfuhE004732 at slippy.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert
>writes:
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>>How would you support vi on a 3270, a different editor maybe?
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>I have run vi(1) on a 3278(-compatible) connected with SNA to an
>Amdahl running UTS, but I have no idea how much magic were involved
>for that to not kill the CPU.
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>At the very least either the 3174 or the 3745 must have been involved.

Hmm interesting. Probably 3174 firmware to make it behave less like a block half duplex terminal. 


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