> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guy > Sotomayor > Sent: 21 April 2016 22:39 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: High performance coprocessor boards of the 80s and 90s - was Re: > SGI ONYX > > > > 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
I don't think the CMS was "heavily" modified, modified certainly, but heavily modified I don't think so... > *not* just glorified terminals. ;-) > > TTFN - Guy
