This really demonstrates the technical orthogonality between the mainframe and the micro/mini world. A tremendous effort to channel Unix'y behavior all the way

This really demonstrates the technical orthogonality between the mainframe and the micro/mini world. A tremendous effort to channel Unix'y behavior all the way to and from the user terminal. At the time I was involved in designing protocol converters which made it possible to send output from an IBM mainframe to a common ASCII printer or plotter. Very demanding to make a smooth interface between two so different environments.