On 11/15/05, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The strength of IBM was seen in the huge cash cow of its market share > in REAL computers. The 360->370 architecture and it's descendants > ruled the roost. There were some in IBM who thought that the PC > needed to be warped (no not that warp which came later) to fit better > into that world. This led to such further huge successes <G> as the > PC/XT370 and PC/XT3270. If anyone else remembers those, I might want > to sign you up for my computer trivia team.
Wow, I remember the PC/XT3270. We had one in the office I worked in at my University. If I remember correctly, it was a channel attached terminal device an ISA card. We never used it for anything more than a dumb terminal, but I much preferred the old 3278s. In my first group I ever worked in at Cisco, we the RS/6000 equivalent of the PC/XT370 - don't remember the model, but it ran MVS on a coprocessor. Fairly nifty if you're into mainframes. I never went beyond 370 assemply and a little bit 'o REXX. --Reggie -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
