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CLUSTER EMULATOR-SYSTEMS-TERMINAL · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2005-10-31

Terminal emulators for legacy systems

This cluster consists of terminal emulators designed for connecting to specific legacy or remote systems, including Apple platforms over SSH/Mosh/Telnet, and IBM mainframe and iSeries/AS400 environments via 3270 or 5250 protocols. The dated entries span from October 2005 to January 2024 with an irregular sparse pattern and a long gap between 2011 and 2024. The traction leaders are pw3270, x3270, and Prompt 3, each with 0 stars, indicating no clear standout.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

OCT 2005: 1AUG 2006: 1FEB 2010: 1NOV 2011: 1
OCT 2005NOV 2011

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled

Operator · 4 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01tn52500★11 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal emulator for connecting to IBM iSeries and AS400 systems using the 5250 protocol.
  2. 02pw32700★15 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal emulator that connects users to legacy TN3270 mainframe hosts for banking and government computing systems.
  3. 03x32700★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal emulator that connects users to IBM mainframe systems using the 3270 protocol.
  4. 04tn5250j0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceJava-based terminal emulator for iSeries and AS/400 systems that supports the 5250 protocol.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.