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In article <1353@msa3b.UUCP> kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:

>Depending on the number of terminals, it may be cheaper to buy $300 terminals
>for each user. Plus, the 3270 is NEVER going to provide a good asynch terminal,
>because it is inherently a block mode terminal.

It's definitely cheaper to buy a $300 async terminal instead of a 3270...

The 3270 running through a 3174 with an async comm adapter, though, emulates
a real VT-100 pretty closely, including getting away from the block-mode
orientation. It does well enough.

On the other hand, using a 3270 in native mode through a host-based adapter
such as the Mitek, or the Interlink I'm using, makes a pretty lousy VT100.
Doing anything other than straight line-by-line text entry is a royal pain.
You haven't lived until you've used emacs this way... :-(
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