[rescue] 386BSD

[James Lockwood]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> Mainframe terminals use twinax - not RS-232... ;^)

To be pedantically IBM, "midrange" terminals use twinax (and implement a
superset of the 5250 functionality).  "Mainframe" terminals are
traditionally 3270 descendants and connect via BNC/RG-62 coax or twisted
pair with BNC baluns.

> These are "mere" Minicomputer terminals ;^)

The line is pretty darn blurred, especially when you take async terminal
channel controllers into account.  Some IBM shops did indeed use VT or VT
clones for data entry.

-James [recovering IBM'er]

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