The speeds to terminals were not great, and this is completely in contrast to how the terminals were meant to be used.
The big idea behind the 3270 architecture was to support things like CICS, where you could have tens of thousands of terminals attached to a single processor computer with 16 megabytes of memory, and then take individual requests from terminals, recover state, and render screens.
The big idea behind the 3270 architecture was to support things like CICS, where you could have tens of thousands of terminals attached to a single processor computer with 16 megabytes of memory, and then take individual requests from terminals, recover state, and render screens.