Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!amdahl!dwl10 From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: AIX on IBM370 machines Keywords: AIX, IBM, mainframe Message-ID: <02Vo02th5a=301@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 25 Sep 89 18:06:53 GMT References: <13676@well.UUCP> <20027@gryphon.COM> <321@cscnj.csc.COM> <6368@turnkey.gryphon.COM> <784@scifi.UUCP> <6371@turnkey.gryphon.COM>Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Distribution: comp Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX Lines: 33 In article terry@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Lewis T. Flynn) writes: >In article <6371@turnkey.gryphon.COM> jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM writes: >>To Mike and Terry from Amdahl, since I have never used UTS, I am >>curious. You say it supports 3270 access, how does it handle their >>block-mode nature with regard to vi and the like? I have seen MTS >>at U of M and I don't think it has this problem since it is set up >>for such terminals, rather than running software designed in the >>async world (again, I could be wrong here since I only had a brief >>glance at it). > >UTS allows you to run vi on a 3270, but I would recommend it only >for the masochistically inclined. 3270 users run ned, an editor >designed for 3270 use. It resembles xedit and ISPF/PDF but mostly >because all three were constrained by the 3270. I use both ned and >vi for my editing and find that for some kinds of tasks, I prefer >one and for different tasks I prefer the other. Both are usable. > >Terry > >I'm still speaking as a user. Just a reminder.... UTS also supports full duplex ASCII terminals. This can be done in several ways, including Ethernet, and our UTS/F full duplex software and a 4705 FEP. The full duplex mode supports vi, emacs, curses, terminfo, etc. It also will emulate a 3270, so that applications that need 3270s can be accessed from full duplex terminals. -- "What is another word | Dave Lowrey | [The opinions expressed MAY be for 'Thesaurus'?" | Amdahl Corp. | those of the author and are not | Houston, Texas | necessarily those of his Steven Wright | amdahl!dwl10 | employer] (`nuff said!)