Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!amd!amdcad!amdahl!sjl From: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon) Newsgroups: net.wanted Subject: Re: IBM 3270 Emulation under Un*x Message-ID: <1705@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 01:14:41 EDT Article-I.D.: amdahl.1705 Posted: Sat Jun 22 01:14:41 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 06:19:58 EDT References: <545@rlvd.UUCP> <1023@mnetor.UUCP> <724@masscomp.UUCP> Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 20 > Another possiblity for 3270 emulation > is to use a device that makes the > IBM talk on a reasonable LAN. Since UNIX likes > TCP/IP ethernets, there is a company called Spartacus > that markets a product that attaches to an IBM block > multiplexer channel. > > The product is called KNET, and I have personnaly used > it from IBM PC's, a MASSCOMP and a Sun. There is very > little software that executes on the non-mainframe end, > it would use TELNET or other standard TCP/IP utility. > The K200 box does the protocol conversion. This reply is a little misleading as the K200 is a fairly pure Ethernet (tm) to channel interface. The 3270 related smarts are in the KNET software. -- Stephen J. Langdon ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun,nsc}!amdahl!sjl [ The article above is not an official statement from any organization in the known universe. ]