ClaudioMA fresh look at #IBM3270 Information Display Systems. 
#IBM #mainframes #VintageComputing
https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
awbOwing to its minicomputer roots, Unix Shells are line-oriented. Some "visual shells" existed, but Unix largely remained on the command line. IBM mainframe OSes offer the ISPF menu system, which is still in use.
My hypothesis is that there is no single reason for this but a combination of established practice, the type of user community, heterogeneous terminal support, fragmented software landscape, and the advent of GUIs.
#unix #shell #terminal #tui #ibm3270
peronMainframe chicks use VM/370 with FORTRAN and COBOL
Mainframe chicks use VM/370 with FORTRAN and COBOL
vintage screwlisp accountOn the topic of #retro #lisp for, while trying to enknowledge myself about Xerox AI Workstations viz #interlisp-d , I happened across https://github.com/marcoxa/CL3270 ; a current/two year old #ibm3270 backend slash toolkit.
This is interesting because #gopher #rfc1436 defines T items as pointing to a tn3270 session.
So I could just talk to my #CommonLisp repl through x3270(1) and that CL3270. I'm getting the sinking feeling someone told me to do this before...
Harald EilertsenOne thing I miss from the 3270 terminals is that carriage return and enter (aka send) was two different keys on the keyboard. That's probably the only thing I miss too, but it was a very useful distinction!
#ibm-3270 #retrocomputing #terminal #oldschool
#ibm-3270 #retrocomputing #terminal #oldschool