> On Apr 21, 2016, at 2:35 PM, Josh Dersch <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Ali <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Actually, the first one was called XT/370 because it plugged into an >>> XT! >>> Then came AT/370. Those were obviously ISA boards. Then came some >>> variants that were microchannel. The final iterations were PCI based. >>> >> >> Guy, >> >> I am not sure about the other systems but my understanding of the XT/370 >> and AT/370 was that they were glorified terminals i.e. instead of having a >> terminal and a PC on your desk you could have it all in one. Is this wrong? >> > > I think you're thinking of the 3270 PC and 3270 AT, which was pretty much > what you described here…
The XT/370 and AT/370 had coprocessor boards that allowed 370 code (and a heavily modified version of VM/370) to be run on the machine itself. They were *not* just glorified terminals. ;-) TTFN - Guy
