Re: 3270 controller simulation

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Nov 18, 2019, at 4:59 PM, Dave Wade via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> Thought I'd pass this on;
> 
> Conversation between a caller and John Akers:
> CALLER:  Hello, John?
> AKERS:   Yes?
> CALLER:  John Akers?
> AKERS:   Yes?
> CALLER:  John F. Akers?
> AKERS:   Yeah?
> CALLER:  John F. Akers, CEO for IBM?
> AKERS:   Yes, what is it?
> CALLER:  John F. Akers, CEO for IBM in Armonk?
> AKERS:   Yes, that's right, what do you want?
> CALLER:  John F. Akers, CEO for IBM in Armonk, ...?
>    (etc. for a few more exchanges)
> AKERS:   All right, enough!  What is going on here?!
> CALLER:  Oh, not much John.  Just thought you would like to know what it
>         is like to talk over SNA.

Neat.  I vaguely remember being told that SNA had a 13-packet connect handshake 
-- unlike efficient transports (TCP, DECnet NSP) which have a 3-packet 
handshake.

        paul