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Product Manual U42006-J-Z795-1-7600
Getting to know the product
2 General information on MT9750
This chapter introduces you to the fundamental concepts and terminology of
MT9750 emulation. It is intended for users with little or no previous knowledge
and can be read selectively.
You may want to skip this section if you have already worked with the preceding
version or similar products and are familiar with the terminology.
2.1 Terminal emulation
Host applications are generally operated at so-called terminals. The type of ter-
minal depends on the host at which you are working; a BS2000 host terminal is
called a data display terminal for example.
A terminal emulation is a program that emulates the properties of a terminal on
another system. This means you can send data from this system (which would
not be suited to this without the emulation) to the host or receive data from the
host and access applications installed on a host. MT9750 is a terminal emula-
tion that emulates the properties of a data display terminal on a PC. Using
MT9750, the users of a PC with Intel
®
processors 80486™ or higher (or proces-
sors compatible with these) can communicate with one or more BS2000 hosts.
MT9750 allows the connection of PCs in TCP/IP-based networks to BS2000
hosts. In this way, the range of functions of the host applications running cen-
trally are available in full to the PC user running MT9750.