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From: Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Inside an IBM z17
Date: Sat, 03 May 2025 13:51:35 -0400
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Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> writes:

> On 03.05.2025 00:28 Uhr Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> 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.

-- 
Dan Espen