You probably could hack together something that would connect a VT100
emulator to MTS, but I don't think anyone has tried this and I'm not
sure how you would do it.
That's exactly what I wanted to do. Oh well; thanks for clarifying!
(...not that it would be the best experience (the UI is definitely
3270-centric, been using x3270 myself), but I just wanted to try it out
for completeness' sake.)
You will note that much of this is written in the future tense. At
the time of D6 the Resource Manager (RM) was not yet integrated into
MTS so none of this is available in D6. The 1996 system has the RM
and it works well. I haven't tried BITNET since there is no one for
me to talk to and configuring it is a pain. I have however gotten a
Postscript printer on my local net to print from MTS using the RM.
Speaking of printers: do you recall if later versions of LaTeX[1]
supported PostScript, or if support was stuck on the Xerox 9700?
[1]
Your description of the history of terminal support in MTS is mostly
correct except that the 2703 wasn't replaced by any of the others, it
coexisted with them until the end.
Ah, that's good news! Less hassle to setup then.
What do you want to use BITNET for? Are there any hosts out there
still using it?
Yes, there's a hobbyist BITNET network called HNET[1][2]. Though making
a local-only network would be cool too.
Would also be interesting to connect the HIM to the TELEBAHN, but
obviously X.25 support has far less priority than TCP/IP.
[1]
[2]
[3]
/g/x25
