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orestes appel (oappel@moose.cs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: 	I do need to communicate my Macintosh with an IBM system
: (two of them, actually) running either MVS or VM. This will be done
: through a telephone line and a modem (I have a UserID at the target machines).
: 
: Could someone indicate me a good communication software that would allow
: me  to do this?

Several possibilities:

1) Any terminal emulator, such as White Knight or ZTerm, plus a
   protocol converter at the mainframe such as
   IBM 7171
   IBM 3708
   IBM Series 1 Yale ASCII
   IBM 3174 AEA
   McData ???                  the preceeding are all hardware

   SimWare's SIM3278           Software.  With this, you might want
      to run SimWare's Mac3270 (payware) on the Mac, but I prefer not
      to; I get better performance at 2400 baud with VT100 protocol
      conversion

2) The fastest, most comfortable emulation I've found, since I'm
   lucky to have a UserID on a Unix system also, is to log on to
   Unix and use tn3270 to the mainframe.

3) No protocol conversion.  How much CMS or TSO can you do in line mode?
   (but it's great for Kermit!)