The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Smrcina) writes: > If I understand what your asking there are products on the market that > can do this today. > > As long as there is a 3270 on the back end (specifically TN3270), a web > interface or a web service is presented on the front end. part of this is some of the whole history about terminal emulation. 3270 terminal emulation contributed significantly to early uptake of ibm/pc ... i.e. businesses that had already allocated money for 3270 terminal ... it became nearly no-brainer ... to switch to an ibm/pc ... price was about the same ... and in single desktop footprint the business got both 3270 terminal and some possibly added-value local computing. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#emulation this contributed to significant install base of 3270 terminal and terminal emulation products. in the later part of the 80s ... were had come up with 3-tier architecture (as an enhancement to client/server) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier and were out doing some amount of customer executive presentations ... and taking a lot of heat from the T/R and SAA forces(to some extent SAA could be viewed as attempting to help preserve the terminal emulation paradigm and inhibit the spread of client/server ... and especially this new fangled 3-tier stuff). we also were taking some amount of heat working with organizations around the nsfnet backbone effort (i.e. tcp/ip is considered the technology basis for the modern internet but nsfnet backbone would be considered the operational basis for the modern internet). some old email from the period on the topic http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet and after starting to cancel our meetings with outside entities ... then there was suggestion that they should start proposing SNA/VTAM as the basis for nsfnet backbone ... specific old email reference http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109 in this post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#21 SNA/VTAM for NSFNET one of the side happenings in all this was we did get an NSF audit of high-speed backbone we had running internally http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet which concluded that what we had running was at least five yrs ahead of all NSFNET backbone bids (to build something new) and for some topic drift ... tagential reference here http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#14 Sueprconductors and computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
