Porting FreeBSD to Z mainframes idea

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <7CA80A6B-47C4-4B70-B590-01532A1D9DE4 at cschubert.com>, Cy Schubert wr
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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=2E
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>>At the very least either the 3174 or the 3745 must have been involved=2E
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>Hmm interesting. Probably 3174 firmware to make it behave less like a 
>block half duplex terminal.

Yes, very much so.

Olivetti ran a bunch of machines, you can find them in old USENet
maps as "olive[a-z]" and some of those ran Amdahl UTS, and I used
one of those for SVR4 work at Ivrea around 1989.

I have no idea what the actual hardware was, but it was the first
time I ever had to pipe df(1) into more(1) :-)

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