west@gargoyle.UUCP (Steve Westfall) (01/15/86)
I have a friend whose company has a Burroughs 3955 mainframe (with SDLN, whatever that is; I thought he meant SDLC, but he said no) with MT983 emulation. (Hope I'm not messing up this terminology - I am getting it from someone who isn't that knowledgeable). He is one-half mile from the central site, has a leased digital line, and wants to use his local IBM PC/AT to communicate with the Burroughs mainframe. I know nothing about Burroughs mainframes and need some advice that I can pass along to him. Any suggestions? Thanks. Steve Westfall Univ. of Chicago Graduate School of Business ...ihnp4!gargoyle!west Phone: (312) 231-6054 (8:30 AM - 5:30 PM)
ken@gitpyr.UUCP (Ken Hall) (01/16/86)
Yes, there is a PC to Burroughs emulator. Call Burroughs for information. A company outside Burroughs wrote the software, so you may have to do some digging to find it. Ken Hall
hqb@gatech.CSNET (hqb) (01/16/86)
I seem to recall there are at least two companies that specialize in this -
one is called MasterLink (or something like that), I can't seem to recall
the name of the other one. Last I heard, one package cost ~$495, and the
other was about $95. It pays to shop around. If you can get hold of
Datapro publications, they're both listed in the volume that discusses
micro to mainframe communication.
Both the above-mentioned packages emulate a somewhat extended version
of the Burroughs poll-select terminal - you can have several sessions
going at once, and switch between them at will, or allocate windows to
each.
Hope this helps.
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