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| The need to emulate the humble mainframe green-screen output will continue to endure in years to come. Smart business people will not throw away the systems that understand their unique "business rules" after years of custom development. Many, many products attempt to provide that desktop to mainframe bridge. Here are a few that I know about: | ||
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| ViaDuct · My personal favorite. Used it since ViaDuct for Dos. Allows you to implement graphical objects like listboxes over your green screen. Also has a programmable ODBC Interface, WinLink | |
| wIntegrate · From IBM, the current owners of UniVerse, a Multi-Value DBMS. | |
| AccuTerm · From AccuSoft, also specializing in terminal emulators for the Multi-Value world. | |
| Microsoft
Windows Telnet Client
· It's FREE! with every version of Microsoft Windows since
'95. You may not know it was there, go to Start|Run|Telnet. Doesn't
emulate much, but it offers TCP/IP connectivity for FREE! The Win2K/XP
versions runs in a Dos-like window and appear to offer less
convenience features. |
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| Cambridge · Not specifically tailored for the Multi-Value market, but they offer terminal emulation products for ALL platforms. | |
| ZTERM 2000 · Like Cambridge, offers tools for different platforms. | |
| Procomm Plus · They claim to be "the Leader in Terminal Emulation". The Procomm Plus package includes a whole suite of communications tools and it is a bit bloated if all you need is a terminal emulator. | |
| Reflection · Don't know much about them, but my brother-in-law seems to like it. | |
| And
all the rest.... Considerable
minutiae about assorted terminal emulation products. The main page, The Archive of VIDEO TERMINAL INFORMATION makes for interesting reading. Finally, support for computing simplicity ranging from a call for Lynx-friendly web pages(!) to much discussion of the video terminal itself. |
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"Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance." -- Jon Franklin |
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