21 Nov
2017
21 Nov
'17
10:49 p.m.
On 11/20/17, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
Ya.... From what (little) I know about 3270 (and 5250 for AS/400s?)
reminds me of HTML forms with the mainframe as the web server and the
terminal as the client web browser.
That's a good analogy. 3270s were designed to be transaction
processing terminals. The application displays a form on the screen;
the user fills in the form and presses an interrupt key; the
application reads back the modified form. Not truly interactive in
the way that TTYs and screen terminals were.
-Paul W.