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Ah CICS! I remember demonstrating a S/36 to a customer’s mainframe shop and watching the disbelief on their faces when 3270 Device Emulation outran their native applications. Of course, being able to make application changes on the fly by simply relaunching the application on a user’s workstation was dumbfounding. This was was back when distributed processing was just beginning. Communications line speeds and bandwidth were just too slow back then and putting processing power out at remote sites was the best solution at the time.