Host Connectivity News and Articles (11/27)
The funny thing about the Internet is that it has been around for a lot longer than you probably realize. Most people would tell you the Internet came into being some time during the Nineties and, indeed, that is when it first started to reach the general public and become the all-pervading force we know it as today. However, the history of the Internet dates back a lot further -- in fact, all the way back to the 1960s when mainframes were still relatively new. These days, terminal emulation software such as 3270 emulation is needed to access mainframes, and the Internet is stronger than ever.
A file transfer protocol refers to the method used to transfer files across a network. To enable file transfer to and from a host system a good terminal emulator must support a wide range of protocols to cater to the needs of any number of differing host systems. We take a tour through TTWin’s file transfer options.
Terminal emulation is a technology that evolved out of a need to replace the traditional hardware terminals used to connect to mainframe and host systems. At Turbosoft, we specialize in software based terminal emulation, mostly for Windows platforms and embedded systems. However historically there have been other solutions that have been developed to replace the original terminals.
ASCII and EBCDIC are two character encoding schemes which have played a historical hole in mainframe environments. Character encoding is simply a method of representing characters in data, morse code, for example is an early type of character encoding. This article takes a brief look at character encoding across modern and legacy systems.