as400 wrote:
I went to my local DMV office and I saw the black screen with the green
text that said DMV AUTOMATION...on a TN3270 (i think) screen...
Are those terminals accessed via a Mainframe or an RS/6000?
I saw alot of them on the teller's screens...It seemd to me as they
were the TN3270 emulation screens...And one said, from far away DMV
AUTOMATION....I suppose that was the login screen or something...I
couldnt make it out because I was sitting far away...
And I when I approached my teller's area, I kind of leaned over to see
what server thay were accessing but it was all in green text....
Can anyone have an insight on this?
The terminals are accessed via the keyboards connected to them. Now
they could be used to access a mainframe, a RS/6000, an AS/400, a "Unix"
system, a Windows system, or any other computer type or OS in the world.
You do know that you can telnet into a Windows box and use a text
based screen to run programs.
It is very difficult to tell what a screen is. Some of the ATM's I use
are black screens with green text, I know that they are not TN3270
sessions. They could be TN3270, TN5250, one of the many other terminal
screens that are supported under telnet (VTxx, Wyse, ANSI, and about 50
others), or it could be PC's Command promtp window with a menu setup
with ANSI control characters.
As far as the term AUTOMATION, this is what they could call their system.
Is there any specific infromation you are trying to gleam? It seems
that you are asking a lot of questions about DMV and other government
system. You know you might be able to get a contact name/number of your
local DMV's IT support team and call them as ask them.
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