Re: Inside an IBM z17

Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> writes:

On 03.05.2025 00:28 Uhr Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Fri, 2 May 2025 10:34:07 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
 

Linux can run on IBM z, so you can do anything that Linux can do on
those machines. 

 
Yeah, but how on earth would you run something like a full-screen
editor on a block-mode text terminal that requires you to press the
SEND key every time?

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IIRC IBM z is networked, so couldn't you use that for connecting to
Linux?

Of course.  Worked for fine me.

The IBM mainframe editors are pretty neat.

Try connecting thousands of users to a single linux box.  You'll soon see the
utility of block mode terminals.

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Dan Espen