Download and install tn3270 (Mac) or x3270 (Windows, Linux, Mac): this will be the client terminal used to connect to the mainframe. Download the emulator, Hercules. Install it, following the README instructions relevant to your system. Note that the instructions for Mac OS are outdated and won’t work. Z/OS, a widely used mainframe operating system, is designed to offer a stable, secure, and continuously available environment for applications running on the mainframe. Mainframe operating system: z/VM As a control program, z/Virtual Machine (z/VM) is a hypervisor because it runs other operating systems in the virtual machines it creates.

• Unix Mac Os X
• Mainframe Mac Os
• Unix Mac Os

This is a list of notable terminal emulators. Most used terminal emulators on Linux and Unix-like systems are GNOME Terminal on GNOME and GTK-based environments, Konsole on KDE, and xfce4-terminal on Xfce as well as xterm.

Character-oriented terminal emulators[edit]

Unix-like[edit]

Command-line interface[edit]

• Linux console – implements a large subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 escape sequences.

The following terminal emulators run inside of other terminals, utilizing libraries such as Curses and Termcap:

• GNU Screen – Terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
• Minicom – text-based modem control and terminal emulation program for Unix-like operating systems
• tmux – Terminal multiplexer with a feature set similar to GNU Screen

Graphical[edit]

X11 and Wayland[edit]

Terminal emulators used in combination with X Window System and Wayland

• xterm – standard terminal for X11
• Alacritty – GPU accelerated, without tabs
• Kitty – GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing, interactive unicode character input
• GNOME Terminal – default terminal for GNOME with native Wayland support
• guake – drop-down terminal for GNOME
• konsole – default terminal for KDE
• xfce4-terminal – default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support
• Terminator – written in Java with many novel or experimental features
• Terminology^[1] – enhanced terminal supportive of multimedia and text manipulation for X11 and Linux framebuffer
• Tilda – a drop-down terminal
• Yakuake – (Yet Another Kuake) a drop-down terminal for KDE
• rxvt – lightweight X11 terminal emulator

• aterm (from rxvt 2.4.8) created for use with the AfterStep window manager (no longer maintained)
• Eterm (from rxvt 2.21) created for use with Enlightenment
• mrxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created for multiple tabs and additional features (latest version released in 2008-09-10)
• urxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created to support Unicode, also known as rxvt-unicode
• Wterm – created for NeXTSTEP style window managers such as Window Maker

macOS[edit]

Terminal emulators used on macOS

• Terminal – default macOS terminal
• iTerm2 – open-source terminal specifically for macOS
• xterm – default terminal when X11.app starts
• ZTerm – serial line terminal

Apple Classic Mac OS[edit]

Microsoft Windows[edit]

• ConEmu – local terminal window that can host console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash)
• HyperACCESS (commercial) and HyperTerminal (included free with Windows XP and earlier, but not included with Windows Vista and later)
• mintty – Cygwin terminal
• Windows Console – Windows command line terminal

Microsoft MS-DOS[edit]

• Qmodem and Qmodem Pro

IBM OS/2[edit]

• ZOC – discontinued support for OS/2

Commodore Amiga[edit]

Commodore 64[edit]

Unix Mac Os X

Block-oriented terminal emulators[edit]

Mainframe Mac Os

Emulators for block-oriented terminals, primarily IBM 3270, but also IBM 5250 and other non-IBM terminals.

Coax/Twinax connected[edit]

These terminal emulators are used to replace terminals attached to a host or terminal controller via a coaxial cable (coax) or twinaxial cabling (twinax). They require that the computer on which they run have a hardware adapter to support such an attachment.

• RUMBA 3270 and 5250

tn3270/tn5250[edit]

Unix Mac Os

These terminal emulators connect to a host using the tn3270 or tn5250 protocols, which run over a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection.

• Eicon Aviva
• x3270 – IBM 3270 emulator for X11 and most Unix-like systems^[2]
• Tn5250j
• Rocket BlueZone
• IBM Personal Communications
• c3270 – IBM 3270 emulator for running inside a vt100/curses emulator for most Unix-like systems^[2]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Schroder, Carla (November 16, 2017). '5 Coolest Linux Terminal Emulators'. Linux.com.
2. ^ ^ab'x3270'.

External links[edit]

• The Grumpy Editor's guide to terminal emulators, 2004
• Comprehensive Linux Terminal Performance Comparison, 2007