Connecting NT desktops to IBM hosts using TCP/IP. (TN3270E servers) (Technology Information)

Enterprise Systems Journal,  January, 1998  by Muck, David

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TN3270E servers have become the preferred path to IBM host access for Windows NT-based PCs. PCs first began to replace 3270 terminals in the mid-1980s. A number of different protocols were used for host access prior to the arrival of TCP/IP as a standard LAN protocol. TN3270 is a standard protocol that uses TCP/IP to communicate with the IBM mainframe, however it left open several important SNA-related issues.

That void was filled by the TN3270E specification, which added IBM 3287 LU1 and LU3 host printing; the use of specific LUs, associated LUs and LU pools; various SNA-like features; ...

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