Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 09:31:37 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, Shivank Garg <shivank@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to Z mainframes idea Message-ID: <202001261731.00QHVbla043953@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <12807.1579989320@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> -------- > In message <7CA80A6B-47C4-4B70-B590-01532A1D9DE4@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. > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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