> Pretty certain the system I remember hearing about was a 990. There indeed
> a couple of terminal emulater cartridges for the 4A. Kermit was ported to
> the 990 and the 4A as well, but that would have required an expansion
> system with drives, which this file server setup was apparently intended
> to avoid. Little fingers, I guess.
I used to work at TI, and for a while we used a TI 990
minicomputer. I can't remember many details (we replaced
the 990 with a MicroVAX II about six months after I
started). I remember using TI914 terminals, which were
block-mode terminals. I don't remember the name of the
operating system, but I do remember the OS was not very
secure.
There was a TI-developed 914 terminal emulator that
was widely used in TI. Long after the 990 systems
were gone the 914 terminal emulator was used to
connect to the IBM mainframes.
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Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Thu Apr 12 2001 - 14:47:28 BST