Porting FreeBSD to Z mainframes idea

[Rodney W. Grimes]

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> In message <7CA80A6B-47C4-4B70-B590-01532A1D9DE4 at cschubert.com>, Cy Schubert wr
> ites:
> 
> >>>How would you support vi on a 3270, a different editor maybe?
> >>
> >>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
> >>
> >>At the very least either the 3174 or the 3745 must have been involved=2E
> >
> >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) :-)

Oh thank you for the good hard laugh Poul!   Sadly for me
that experience came on VMS with a show disks on a large
VAX Cluster.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org