Whether they run on your server, in your hand, or in the cloud, remote applications should favor reliability over a desktop look. The good apps can go for both Convenience, low or no cost, bundling, ...

In our last newsletter we suggested that the industry is entering a new era of mainframe computing. In that newsletter we began the process of looking at the end user devices of the original mainframe ...

Many developers working on Web services applications may never have seen a working IBM 3270 terminal with its pre-Windows PC display limited to bright green phosphorous letters and numbers. But they, ...

On non-EDS terminals, vertical window borders occupy three display positions on the screen: the first position for the field attribute byte, the next position for the border character itself, and the ...

On non-EDS terminals, vertical window borders occupy three display positions on the screen: the first position for the field attribute byte, the second position for the border character itself, and ...

A plug-in board that turns a desktop computer into an IBM mainframe terminal. The first 3270 emulator was the IRMA board from Digital Communications Associates. The board is sometimes called a "coax ...